x86/retpoline: Optimize inline assembler for vmexit_fill_RSB
authorAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 22:53:28 +0000 (14:53 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 18:57:10 +0000 (19:57 +0100)
commit06d7342d8498b7426ab50368436417cdf6ed1923
treee1bfd28812a16cb236b89c67468c1a0980518d04
parentb9f8b5935394362e68147cb2792c5f74ff3fc4ca
x86/retpoline: Optimize inline assembler for vmexit_fill_RSB

commit 3f7d875566d8e79c5e0b2c9a413e91b2c29e0854 upstream.

The generated assembler for the C fill RSB inline asm operations has
several issues:

- The C code sets up the loop register, which is then immediately
  overwritten in __FILL_RETURN_BUFFER with the same value again.

- The C code also passes in the iteration count in another register, which
  is not used at all.

Remove these two unnecessary operations. Just rely on the single constant
passed to the macro for the iterations.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180117225328.15414-1-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h