[tip:x86/vdso] x86/vdso: Remove "memory" clobbers in the vDSO syscall fallbacks

From: tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
Date: Fri Oct 05 2018 - 04:28:29 EST


Commit-ID: 89fe0a1f1c694a3b0b3cfa8c0952d603753f36df
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/89fe0a1f1c694a3b0b3cfa8c0952d603753f36df
Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 14:44:43 -0700
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 10:12:18 +0200

x86/vdso: Remove "memory" clobbers in the vDSO syscall fallbacks

When a vDSO clock function falls back to the syscall, no special
barriers or ordering is needed, and the syscall fallbacks don't
clobber any memory that is not explicitly listed in the asm
constraints. Remove the "memory" clobber.

This causes minor changes to the generated code, but otherwise has
no obvious performance impact. I think it's nice to have, though,
since it may help the optimizer in the future.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3a7438f5fb2422ed881683d2ccffd7f987b2dc44.1538689401.git.luto@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
index b7ccbff26a3f..18c8a78d1ec9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ notrace static long vdso_fallback_gettime(long clock, struct timespec *ts)
long ret;
asm ("syscall" : "=a" (ret), "=m" (*ts) :
"0" (__NR_clock_gettime), "D" (clock), "S" (ts) :
- "memory", "rcx", "r11");
+ "rcx", "r11");
return ret;
}

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ notrace static long vdso_fallback_gettime(long clock, struct timespec *ts)
"mov %%edx, %%ebx \n"
: "=a" (ret), "=m" (*ts)
: "0" (__NR_clock_gettime), [clock] "g" (clock), "c" (ts)
- : "memory", "edx");
+ : "edx");
return ret;
}