Re: [PATCH] crc32-pclmul: remove useless relative addressing

[Herbert Xu]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 10:41:21PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> In 32-bit mode, the x86 architecture can hold full 32-bit pointers.
> Therefore, the code that copies the current address to the %ecx register
> and uses %ecx-relative addressing is useless, we could just use absolute
> addressing.
> 
> The processors have a stack of return addresses for branch prediction. If 
> we use a call instruction and pop the return address, it desynchronizes 
> the return stack and causes branch prediction misses.
> 
> This patch also moves the data to the .rodata section.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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