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* [PATCH 3/3] x86: verify_cpu: restore flags later
@ 2018-05-17 21:33 Alexey Dobriyan
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From: Alexey Dobriyan @ 2018-05-17 21:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tglx, mingo, hpa; +Cc: x86, linux-kernel

	popf
	xor	eax, eax

formally doesn't restore flags because XOR clobber flags.

Do POPF as last instruction and rearrange the other case for symmetry.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
---

 arch/x86/kernel/verify_cpu.S |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/verify_cpu.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/verify_cpu.S
@@ -132,11 +132,11 @@ ENTRY(verify_cpu)
 	jmp	.Lverify_cpu_sse_test	# try again
 
 .Lverify_cpu_no_longmode:
-	popf				# Restore caller passed flags
 	movl $1,%eax
+	popf				# Restore caller passed flags
 	ret
 .Lverify_cpu_sse_ok:
-	popf				# Restore caller passed flags
 	xorl %eax, %eax
+	popf				# Restore caller passed flags
 	ret
 ENDPROC(verify_cpu)

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