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
next prev 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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