Re: [PATCH] x86/head_64.S: do not use temporary register to check alignment

[Borislav Petkov]

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 12:50:28PM +0600, Alexander Kuleshov wrote:
> We are using temporary %rax register during checking of kernel address
> alignment. We can ged rid of it since testl instruction is safe and does
> not change value of the rbp register.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@xxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
> index ffdc0e8..7c21029 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
> @@ -76,9 +76,7 @@ startup_64:
>  	subq	$_text - __START_KERNEL_map, %rbp
>  
>  	/* Is the address not 2M aligned? */
> -	movq	%rbp, %rax
> -	andl	$~PMD_PAGE_MASK, %eax
> -	testl	%eax, %eax
> +	testl	$~PMD_PAGE_MASK, %ebp
>  	jnz	bad_address
>  
>  	/*
> --

Applied, thanks.

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