Re: [PATCH] x86: Use INVPCID mnemonic in invpcid.h

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri May 08 2020 - 13:33:01 EST


Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>

On 2020-05-08 02:22, Uros Bizjak wrote:
> Current minimum required version of binutils is 2.23,
> which supports INVPCID instruction mnemonic.
>
> Replace the byte-wise specification of INVPCID with
> this proper mnemonic.
>
> Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/invpcid.h | 7 ++-----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/invpcid.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/invpcid.h
> index 989cfa86de85..23749bbca0ad 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/invpcid.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/invpcid.h
> @@ -12,12 +12,9 @@ static inline void __invpcid(unsigned long pcid, unsigned long addr,
> * stale TLB entries and, especially if we're flushing global
> * mappings, we don't want the compiler to reorder any subsequent
> * memory accesses before the TLB flush.
> - *
> - * The hex opcode is invpcid (%ecx), %eax in 32-bit mode and
> - * invpcid (%rcx), %rax in long mode.
> */
> - asm volatile (".byte 0x66, 0x0f, 0x38, 0x82, 0x01"
> - : : "m" (desc), "a" (type), "c" (&desc) : "memory");
> + asm volatile ("invpcid %1, %0"
> + : : "r" (type), "m" (desc) : "memory");
> }
>
> #define INVPCID_TYPE_INDIV_ADDR 0
>