From: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>,
Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] x86/asm/entry/32: Remove unnecessary optimization in stub32_clone
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 18:40:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1429720808-7173-2-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1429720808-7173-1-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Really swap arguments #4 and #5 in stub32_clone instead of "optimizing"
it into a move.
Yes, tls_val is currently unused. Yes, on some CPUs XCHG is a little bit
more expensive than MOV. But a cycle or two on an expensive syscall like
clone() is way below noise floor, and obfuscation of logic introduced
by this optimization is simply not worth it.
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CC: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
CC: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
CC: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
CC: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
CC: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
CC: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
CC: x86@kernel.org
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
---
arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
index 8e72256..0c302d0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
+++ b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
@@ -567,11 +567,9 @@ GLOBAL(stub32_clone)
* 32-bit clone API is clone(..., int tls_val, int *child_tidptr).
* 64-bit clone API is clone(..., int *child_tidptr, int tls_val).
* Native 64-bit kernel's sys_clone() implements the latter.
- * We need to swap args here. But since tls_val is in fact ignored
- * by sys_clone(), we can get away with an assignment
- * (arg4 = arg5) instead of a full swap:
+ * We need to swap args here:
*/
- mov %r8, %rcx
+ xchg %r8, %rcx
jmp ia32_ptregs_common
ALIGN
--
1.8.1.4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-22 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-22 16:40 [PATCH 1/2] x86/asm/entry/32: Explain stub32_clone logic Denys Vlasenko
2015-04-22 16:40 ` Denys Vlasenko [this message]
2015-04-22 16:54 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86/asm/entry/32: Remove unnecessary optimization in stub32_clone Andy Lutomirski
2015-04-22 17:10 ` Josh Triplett
2015-04-22 18:04 ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-04-22 18:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-22 20:12 ` Josh Triplett
2015-04-23 6:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-23 7:36 ` Josh Triplett
2015-04-22 16:53 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/asm/entry/32: Explain stub32_clone logic Andy Lutomirski
2015-06-03 13:58 Denys Vlasenko
2015-06-03 13:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86/asm/entry/32: Remove unnecessary optimization in stub32_clone Denys Vlasenko
2015-06-03 16:38 ` Josh Triplett
2015-06-04 10:07 ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-06-04 15:58 ` Josh Triplett
2015-06-05 11:44 ` Ingo Molnar
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