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Denys Vlasenko committed 9ed8e7d8606
x86/asm/entry/64: Use PUSH instructions to build pt_regs on stack
With this change, on SYSCALL64 code path we are now populating
pt_regs->cs, pt_regs->ss and pt_regs->rcx unconditionally and
therefore don't need to do that in FIXUP_TOP_OF_STACK.
We lose a number of large instructions there:
text data bss dec hex filename
13298 0 0 13298 33f2 entry_64_before.o
12978 0 0 12978 32b2 entry_64.o
What's more important, we convert two "MOVQ $imm,off(%rsp)" to
"PUSH $imm" (the ones which fill pt_regs->cs,ss).
Before this patch, placing them on fast path was slowing it down
by two cycles: this form of MOV is very large, 12 bytes, and
this probably reduces decode bandwidth to one instruction per cycle
when CPU sees them.
Therefore they were living in FIXUP_TOP_OF_STACK instead (away
from fast path).
"PUSH $imm" is a small 2-byte instruction. Moving it to fast path does
not slow it down in my measurements.
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426785469-15125-3-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>