[PATCH 4.14 041/159] x86/entry/64: Merge the fast and slow SYSRET paths

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-12-22T09:00:11Z

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

commit a512210643da8082cb44181dba8b18e752bd68f0 upstream.

They did almost the same thing. Remove a bunch of pointless
instructions (mostly hidden in macros) and reduce cognitive load by
merging them.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1204e20233fcab9130a1ba80b3b1879b5db3fc1f.1509609304.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
@@ -221,10 +221,9 @@ entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath:
TRACE_IRQS_ON /* user mode is traced as IRQs on */
movq RIP(%rsp), %rcx
movq EFLAGS(%rsp), %r11
- RESTORE_C_REGS_EXCEPT_RCX_R11
- movq RSP(%rsp), %rsp
+ addq $6*8, %rsp /* skip extra regs -- they were preserved */
UNWIND_HINT_EMPTY
- USERGS_SYSRET64
+ jmp .Lpop_c_regs_except_rcx_r11_and_sysret

1:
/*
@@ -318,6 +317,7 @@ syscall_return_via_sysret:
/* rcx and r11 are already restored (see code above) */
UNWIND_HINT_EMPTY
POP_EXTRA_REGS
+.Lpop_c_regs_except_rcx_r11_and_sysret:
popq %rsi /* skip r11 */
popq %r10
popq %r9