Re: [RFC][PATCH 21/22] x86,word-at-a-time: Remove .fixup usage

[Josh Poimboeuf]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 05:47:50PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> XXX: I'm not really happy with this patch
>
>  static inline unsigned long load_unaligned_zeropad(const void *addr)
>  {
> -	unsigned long ret, dummy;
> +	unsigned long ret;
> +
> +	asm("1:\tmov (%0),%0\n"
> +	    "2:\n"
> +	    _ASM_EXTABLE_TYPE_REG(1b, 2b, EX_TYPE_LOAD_UNALIGNED, %0)
> +	    : "=&r" (ret)
> +	    : "0" ((unsigned long)addr));
>  
> -	asm(
> -		"1:\tmov %2,%0\n"
> -		"2:\n"
> -		".section .fixup,\"ax\"\n"
> -		"3:\t"
> -		"lea %2,%1\n\t"
> -		"and %3,%1\n\t"
> -		"mov (%1),%0\n\t"
> -		"leal %2,%%ecx\n\t"
> -		"andl %4,%%ecx\n\t"
> -		"shll $3,%%ecx\n\t"
> -		"shr %%cl,%0\n\t"
> -		"jmp 2b\n"
> -		".previous\n"
> -		_ASM_EXTABLE(1b, 3b)
> -		:"=&r" (ret),"=&c" (dummy)
> -		:"m" (*(unsigned long *)addr),
> -		 "i" (-sizeof(unsigned long)),
> -		 "i" (sizeof(unsigned long)-1));
>  	return ret;
>  }

Yeah, it hurts code generation and I guess it's a hot path.

Maybe put the fixup code in the function.  In case of
CONFIG_CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT, it could be at a label at the end of the
function.  Otherwise it'd have to be inline.

-- 
Josh