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| author | Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> | 2015-06-03 15:58:50 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2015-06-05 13:41:28 +0200 |
| commit | 7a5a9824c18f93415944c997dc6bb8eecfddd2e7 (patch) | |
| tree | c5035a0440a4182ad18e3953bf0fe323a91e566d /arch/x86/entry | |
| parent | 5cdc683b7d8b3341a3d18e0c5498bc1e4f3fb990 (diff) | |
| download | linux-7a5a9824c18f93415944c997dc6bb8eecfddd2e7.tar.bz2 | |
x86/asm/entry/32: Remove unnecessary optimization in stub32_clone
Really swap arguments #4 and #5 in stub32_clone instead of
"optimizing" it into a move.
Yes, tls_val is currently unused. Yes, on some CPUs XCHG is a
little bit more expensive than MOV. But a cycle or two on an
expensive syscall like clone() is way below noise floor, and
this optimization is simply not worth the obfuscation of logic.
[ There's also ongoing work on the clone() ABI by Josh Triplett
that will depend on this change later on. ]
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
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: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433339930-20880-2-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/entry')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/entry/ia32entry.S | 13 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/ia32entry.S b/arch/x86/entry/ia32entry.S index d0c7b28d5670..9558dacf32b9 100644 --- a/arch/x86/entry/ia32entry.S +++ b/arch/x86/entry/ia32entry.S @@ -529,14 +529,13 @@ GLOBAL(\label) GLOBAL(stub32_clone) leaq sys_clone(%rip), %rax /* - * 32-bit clone API is clone(..., int tls_val, int *child_tidptr). - * 64-bit clone API is clone(..., int *child_tidptr, int tls_val). - * Native 64-bit kernel's sys_clone() implements the latter. - * We need to swap args here. But since tls_val is in fact ignored - * by sys_clone(), we can get away with an assignment - * (arg4 = arg5) instead of a full swap: + * The 32-bit clone ABI is: clone(..., int tls_val, int *child_tidptr). + * The 64-bit clone ABI is: clone(..., int *child_tidptr, int tls_val). + * + * The native 64-bit kernel's sys_clone() implements the latter, + * so we need to swap arguments here before calling it: */ - mov %r8, %rcx + xchg %r8, %rcx jmp ia32_ptregs_common ALIGN |