Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/asm/suspend: Get rid of bogus_64_magic

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sat Sep 07 2019 - 09:10:39 EST


On Fri 2019-09-06 09:55:49, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> bogus_64_magic is only a dead-end loop. There is no need for an
> out-of-order function (and unannotated local label), so just handle it
> in-place and also store 0xbad-m-a-g-i-c to rcx beforehand.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_64.S | 10 ++++++----
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_64.S
> index b0715c3ac18d..7f9ade13bbcf 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_64.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_64.S
> @@ -18,8 +18,13 @@ ENTRY(wakeup_long64)
> movq saved_magic, %rax
> movq $0x123456789abcdef0, %rdx
> cmpq %rdx, %rax
> - jne bogus_64_magic
> + je 2f
>
> + /* stop here on a saved_magic mismatch */
> + movq $0xbad6d61676963, %rcx
> +1:
> + jmp 1b
> +2:

btw I suspect you can simply do here

1b: jne 1b

... if someone is looking with gdb, he'll understand what is going
on. no need to bother with special %rcx, %rdx is already rather magic.

Best regards,
Pavel

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