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From: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
To: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] x86: Use XORL r32,r32 in __get_user_asm
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 18:49:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200827164905.88235-1-ubizjak@gmail.com> (raw)

Use XORL r32,r32 for all operand sizes. x86_64 zero extends 32bit
operations, so for 64bit operands, XORL r32,r32 is functionally
equal to XORL r64,r64, but avoids a REX prefix byte when legacy
registers are used.

32bit operation also avoids 0x66 size prefix for 16bit operands
and REX prefix when %sil, %dil and %bpl 8bit registers are used.

As a bonus, 32bit XORL breaks register dependency chains, avoiding
potential partial register stalls with 8 and 16bit operands.

The patch lowers the size of .fixup section by 20 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h
index ecefaffd15d4..2bffba2a1b23 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ do {									\
 		     "2:\n"						\
 		     ".section .fixup,\"ax\"\n"				\
 		     "3:	mov %[efault],%[errout]\n"		\
-		     "	xor"itype" %[output],%[output]\n"		\
+		     "	xorl %k[output],%k[output]\n"			\
 		     "	jmp 2b\n"					\
 		     ".previous\n"					\
 		     _ASM_EXTABLE_UA(1b, 3b)				\
-- 
2.26.2


             reply	other threads:[~2020-08-27 16:49 UTC|newest]

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2020-08-27 16:49 Uros Bizjak [this message]
2020-08-27 17:23 ` H. Peter Anvin

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