From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:58468 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752222AbdLUQvM (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Dec 2017 11:51:12 -0500 Subject: Patch "x86/entry/64: Simplify reg restore code in the standard IRET paths" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree To: luto@kernel.org, bpetkov@suse.de, brgerst@gmail.com, dave.hansen@intel.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, mingo@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, tglx@linutronix.de, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: , From: Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 17:05:51 +0100 Message-ID: <1513872351104232@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/entry/64: Simplify reg restore code in the standard IRET paths to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: x86-entry-64-simplify-reg-restore-code-in-the-standard-iret-paths.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From e872045bfd9c465a8555bab4b8567d56a4d2d3bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 00:59:01 -0700 Subject: x86/entry/64: Simplify reg restore code in the standard IRET paths From: Andy Lutomirski commit e872045bfd9c465a8555bab4b8567d56a4d2d3bb upstream. The old code restored all the registers with movq instead of pop. In theory, this was done because some CPUs have higher movq throughput, but any gain there would be tiny and is almost certainly outweighed by the higher text size. This saves 96 bytes of text. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ad82520a207ccd851b04ba613f4f752b33ac05f7.1509609304.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/entry/calling.h | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 12 ++++++------ 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/entry/calling.h +++ b/arch/x86/entry/calling.h @@ -152,6 +152,27 @@ For 32-bit we have the following convent UNWIND_HINT_REGS offset=\offset extra=0 .endm + .macro POP_EXTRA_REGS + popq %r15 + popq %r14 + popq %r13 + popq %r12 + popq %rbp + popq %rbx + .endm + + .macro POP_C_REGS + popq %r11 + popq %r10 + popq %r9 + popq %r8 + popq %rax + popq %rcx + popq %rdx + popq %rsi + popq %rdi + .endm + .macro RESTORE_C_REGS_HELPER rstor_rax=1, rstor_rcx=1, rstor_r11=1, rstor_r8910=1, rstor_rdx=1 .if \rstor_r11 movq 6*8(%rsp), %r11 --- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S @@ -619,9 +619,9 @@ GLOBAL(swapgs_restore_regs_and_return_to 1: #endif SWAPGS - RESTORE_EXTRA_REGS - RESTORE_C_REGS - REMOVE_PT_GPREGS_FROM_STACK 8 + POP_EXTRA_REGS + POP_C_REGS + addq $8, %rsp /* skip regs->orig_ax */ INTERRUPT_RETURN @@ -651,9 +651,9 @@ GLOBAL(restore_regs_and_return_to_kernel ud2 1: #endif - RESTORE_EXTRA_REGS - RESTORE_C_REGS - REMOVE_PT_GPREGS_FROM_STACK 8 + POP_EXTRA_REGS + POP_C_REGS + addq $8, %rsp /* skip regs->orig_ax */ INTERRUPT_RETURN ENTRY(native_iret) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from luto@kernel.org are queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-simplify-reg-restore-code-in-the-standard-iret-paths.patch queue-4.14/x86-cpufeatures-fix-various-details-in-the-feature-definitions.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-move-the-ist-stacks-into-struct-cpu_entry_area.patch queue-4.14/x86-dumpstack-add-get_stack_info-support-for-the-sysenter-stack.patch 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