Re: [PATCH 02/11] x86: code shrink in paranoid_exit

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Wed Feb 18 2015 - 18:26:55 EST


On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> RESTORE_EXTRA_REGS + RESTORE_C_REGS looks small, but it's
> a lot of instructions (fourteen). Let's reuse them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: X86 ML <x86@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Will Drewry <wad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
> index a21b5b3..f5e815e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
> @@ -1270,12 +1270,10 @@ ENTRY(paranoid_exit)
> jnz paranoid_restore
> TRACE_IRQS_IRETQ 0
> SWAPGS_UNSAFE_STACK
> - RESTORE_EXTRA_REGS
> - RESTORE_C_REGS
> - REMOVE_PT_GPREGS_FROM_STACK 8
> - INTERRUPT_RETURN
> + jmp paranoid_restore1
> paranoid_restore:
> TRACE_IRQS_IRETQ_DEBUG 0
> +paranoid_restore1:
> RESTORE_EXTRA_REGS
> RESTORE_C_REGS
> REMOVE_PT_GPREGS_FROM_STACK 8
> --
> 1.8.1.4
>

Applied, but I changed the label names.

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Andy Lutomirski
AMA Capital Management, LLC
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