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Denys Vlasenko committed 03335e95e27
x86/asm/entry/64: Clean up usage of TEST insns
By the nature of TEST operation, it is often possible
to test a narrower part of the operand:
"testl $3, mem" -> "testb $3, mem"
This results in shorter insns, because TEST insn has no
sign-entending byte-immediate forms unlike other ALU ops.
text data bss dec hex filename
11674 0 0 11674 2d9a entry_64.o.before
11658 0 0 11658 2d8a entry_64.o
Changes in object code:
- f7 84 24 88 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 testl $0x3,0x88(%rsp)
+ f6 84 24 88 00 00 00 03 testb $0x3,0x88(%rsp)
- f7 44 24 68 03 00 00 00 testl $0x3,0x68(%rsp)
+ f6 44 24 68 03 testb $0x3,0x68(%rsp)
- f7 84 24 90 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 testl $0x3,0x90(%rsp)
+ f6 84 24 90 00 00 00 03 testb $0x3,0x90(%rsp)
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430140912-7960-2-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>