Re: [GIT PULL] KVM fixes for Linux 5.15-rc7

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 18/10/21 20:15, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>           * Use a bitwise-OR instead of a logical-OR to aggregate the reserved
>>           * bits and EPT's invalid memtype/XWR checks to avoid an extra Jcc
>>           * (this is extremely unlikely to be short-circuited as true).
> That makes very little sense.
> 
> It seems to be avoiding a 'jcc' and replace it with a 'setcc' and an
> 'or'. Which is likely both bigger and slower.

The compiler knows that the setcc is unnecessary, because a!=0|b!=0 is 
the same as (a|b)!=0.

> If the jcc were unpredictable, maybe that would be one thing. But at
> least from a quick look, that doesn't even seem likely
> 
>   The other use of that function has a "WARN_ONCE()" on it, so
> presumably it normally doesn't ever trigger either of the boolean
> conditions.

Yes, and that was why it used a "|".

Anyway, not worth arguing for or against; I'll just change it to logical OR.

Paolo