Re: [PATCH 3/5] x86/entry_64.S: use PUSH insns to build pt_regs on stack

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 06:17:47PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> 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 insns 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 insn 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 insn. Moving it to fast path does not slow it down
> in my measurements.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
> CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> CC: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
> CC: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
> CC: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> CC: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
> CC: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
> CC: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> CC: x86@kernel.org
> CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> ---
> 
> Changes since last version: reformulate old comment which was
> mostly failing to explain why we don't have TRACE_IRQS_OFF/ONs
> around a irq-off section in SYSCALL64 code path.
> 
>  arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
>  1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

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