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x86/retpoline: Optimize inline assembler for vmexit_fill_RSB
authorAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 22:53:28 +0000 (14:53 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 18:50:18 +0000 (19:50 +0100)
commit11e619414b69b7f1e47baac72c5be589d86e5393
treed077e794319a4eea9a2b6286bda9d27023198cc0
parent58f96ac5dba6b66d9fb4e0072e0e01df0360a43f
x86/retpoline: Optimize inline assembler for vmexit_fill_RSB

commit 3f7d875566d8e79c5e0b2c9a413e91b2c29e0854 upstream.

The generated assembler for the C fill RSB inline asm operations has
several issues:

- The C code sets up the loop register, which is then immediately
  overwritten in __FILL_RETURN_BUFFER with the same value again.

- The C code also passes in the iteration count in another register, which
  is not used at all.

Remove these two unnecessary operations. Just rely on the single constant
passed to the macro for the iterations.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180117225328.15414-1-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h