[PATCH 3/4] x86/asm: delete dummy variables in movdir64b()

From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Fri Mar 07 2025 - 01:13:04 EST


Cast to pointer-to-array instead.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h | 9 +++------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
index d349aa0f0a83..b24c6c945c38 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
@@ -215,13 +215,10 @@ static __always_inline void serialize(void)
/* The dst parameter must be 64-bytes aligned */
static inline void movdir64b(void *dst, const void *src)
{
- const struct { char _[64]; } *__src = src;
- struct { char _[64]; } *__dst = dst;
-
/*
* MOVDIR64B %(rdx), rax.
*
- * Both __src and __dst must be memory constraints in order to tell the
+ * Both src and dst must be memory constraints in order to tell the
* compiler that no other memory accesses should be reordered around
* this one.
*
@@ -230,8 +227,8 @@ static inline void movdir64b(void *dst, const void *src)
* I.e., not the pointers but what they point to, thus the deref'ing '*'.
*/
asm volatile(".byte 0x66, 0x0f, 0x38, 0xf8, 0x02"
- : "+m" (*__dst)
- : "m" (*__src), "a" (__dst), "d" (__src));
+ : "+m" (*(char(*)[64])dst)
+ : "m" (*(const char(*)[64])src), "a" (dst), "d" (src));
}

static inline void movdir64b_io(void __iomem *dst, const void *src)
--
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