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From: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mfo@igalia.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	 Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	 x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	 Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	 Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
	 Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>, Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: kernel-dev@igalia.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
	Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mfo@igalia.com>
Subject: [PATCH v9 2/5] x86/asm, x86/boot: expose inline memcmp()
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:33:18 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260822-pvh-kasan-inline-v9-2-e70ef3b75b6a@igalia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260822-pvh-kasan-inline-v9-0-e70ef3b75b6a@igalia.com>

Move the inline memcmp function currently only available in 'boot/string.c'
into the shared string function header <asm/shared/string.h> to be reused.

This is not done through <asm/string.h> to avoid pulling unnecessary code
in 'boot/string.c' that causes build errors in 'boot/compressed/string.c'
and 'purgatory/purgatory.ro'.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mfo@igalia.com>

---

Thanks to David Laight for noticing the return value difference between
inline and regular memcmp().
---
 arch/x86/boot/string.c               | 13 ++-----------
 arch/x86/include/asm/shared/string.h | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/string.c b/arch/x86/boot/string.c
index 03278b4393887cb71cb063818d3378c4f52b06f8..be454a6864225f3a972c3e81826b77ed4e8a57fe 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/string.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/string.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include <linux/errno.h>
 #include <linux/limits.h>
 #include <asm/asm.h>
+#include <asm/shared/string.h>
 #include "ctype.h"
 #include "string.h"
 
@@ -31,17 +32,7 @@
 
 int memcmp(const void *s1, const void *s2, size_t len)
 {
-	bool diff;
-
-	/*
-	 * Make sure ZF is properly set in the len==0 case because in it,
-	 * RCX==0 and the REPE; CMPSB won't get executed.
-	 */
-	asm volatile("test %3, %3\n\t"
-		     "repe cmpsb"
-		     : "=@ccnz" (diff), "+D" (s1), "+S" (s2), "+c" (len)
-		     : : "memory");
-	return diff;
+	return __inline_memcmp(s1, s2, len);
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/shared/string.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/shared/string.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..06c1d5e5013e4d59cfb49866d10e164362d2c4cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/shared/string.h
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#ifndef _ASM_X86_SHARED_STRING_H
+#define _ASM_X86_SHARED_STRING_H
+
+/*
+ * This inline memcmp() returns 0 (equal) or 1 (not equal).
+ * The regular memcmp() returns <0 (less than), 0 (equal), or >0 (greater than)
+ * to indicate ordering as well.
+ */
+static __always_inline int __inline_memcmp(const void *s1, const void *s2, size_t len)
+{
+	bool diff;
+
+	/*
+	 * Make sure ZF is properly set in the len==0 case because in it,
+	 * RCX==0 and the REPE; CMPSB won't get executed.
+	 */
+	asm volatile("test %3, %3\n\t"
+		     "repe cmpsb"
+		     : "=@ccnz" (diff), "+D" (s1), "+S" (s2), "+c" (len)
+		     : : "memory");
+
+	return diff;
+}
+
+#endif /* _ASM_X86_SHARED_STRING_H */

-- 
2.47.3


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-22 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-22 18:33 [PATCH v9 0/5] x86/pvh: fix unbootable VMs again (PVH + KASAN) Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-08-22 18:33 ` [PATCH v9 1/5] x86/boot: Remove "cc" clobber from memcmp() Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-09-01 13:16   ` Jan Beulich
2026-09-02  8:33     ` David Laight
2026-09-02 14:18       ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-09-02  2:31   ` Borislav Petkov
2026-09-02 13:29     ` Michael Matz
2026-09-02 13:48       ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-09-03  0:01         ` Borislav Petkov
2026-09-03  0:07           ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-09-03  0:39             ` Borislav Petkov
2026-09-03  8:40           ` David Laight
2026-09-02 23:58       ` Borislav Petkov
2026-08-22 18:33 ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira [this message]
2026-09-06 17:01   ` [PATCH v9 2/5] x86/asm, x86/boot: expose inline memcmp() Borislav Petkov
2026-09-06 18:15     ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-09-08 18:04       ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-09-08 19:32         ` Borislav Petkov
2026-09-08 21:06           ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-09-10  3:38             ` Borislav Petkov
2026-09-10 13:07               ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-09-10 14:03               ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-09-08 23:16           ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-09-09  8:38             ` David Laight
2026-09-09 13:43               ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-09-09 19:28                 ` David Laight
2026-09-09 19:33                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-09-09 21:39                     ` David Laight
2026-09-09 23:12                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-09-08 17:57     ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-08-22 18:33 ` [PATCH v9 3/5] x86/asm: group inline string functions Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-08-22 18:33 ` [PATCH v9 4/5] x86/cpuid: fix unbootable VMs by really inlining memcmp() in hypervisor_cpuid_base() Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-09-11  4:38   ` Borislav Petkov
2026-09-14 11:22     ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-09-15  5:11       ` Borislav Petkov
2026-09-15  8:43         ` David Laight
2026-09-15 15:48         ` Borislav Petkov
2026-09-15 23:49           ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-09-16  0:04             ` Borislav Petkov
2026-09-16  0:52               ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-08-22 18:33 ` [PATCH v9 5/5] x86/pvh: fix unbootable VMs by really inlining memset() in xen_prepare_pvh() Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-09-11  4:39   ` Borislav Petkov
2026-09-14 11:40     ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2026-09-15  5:26       ` Borislav Petkov
2026-09-15 23:55         ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira

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