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)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 15:31:30 +0000 (16:31 +0100)
commit3f7d875566d8e79c5e0b2c9a413e91b2c29e0854
tree0d0039aae333d220686378a027e38273c133e856
parent98f0fceec7f84d80bc053e49e596088573086421
x86/retpoline: Optimize inline assembler for vmexit_fill_RSB

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
arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h