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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Kate Stewart" <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Nicolas Pitre" <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>,
	"Michal Hocko" <mhocko@suse.com>,
	"Sergey Senozhatsky" <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
	"Petr Mladek" <pmladek@suse.com>,
	"Len Brown" <len.brown@intel.com>,
	"Boris Ostrovsky" <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
	"Christopher Li" <sparse@chrisli.org>,
	"Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, "Dominik Brodowski" <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Masahiro Yamada" <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
	"Pavel Machek" <pavel@ucw.cz>, "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com,
	"Jiri Slaby" <jslaby@suse.cz>,
	"Alok Kataria" <akataria@vmware.com>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	"Herbert Xu" <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	"Baoquan He" <bhe@redhat.com>, "Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
	"Joerg Roedel" <joro@8bytes.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 06/27] x86/entry/64: Adapt assembly for PIE support
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 11:18:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6d14b321-debc-5bc8-8c1b-14150052f5b8@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1803141051210.14471@nuc-kabylake>

On 14/03/2018 16:54, Christopher Lameter wrote:
>>> +	pushq	%rax		/* Support Position Independent Code */
>>> +	leaq	1f(%rip), %rax	/* RIP */
>>> +	xchgq	%rax, (%rsp)	/* Restore RAX, put 1f */
>>>  	iretq			/* continues at repeat_nmi below */
>>>  	UNWIND_HINT_IRET_REGS
>>>  1:
>> Urgh, xchg with a memop has an implicit LOCK prefix.
> this_cpu_xchg uses no lock cmpxchg as a replacement to reduce latency.

That requires using a second register, since %rax is used as the
comparison source.  At this point it's easier to just push %rax twice:

	pushq %rax
	pushq %rax
	leaq 1f(%ip), %rax
	movq %rax, 8(%rsp)
	popq %rax
	iretq

Paolo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-15 10:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-13 20:59 [PATCH v2 00/27] x86: PIE support and option to extend KASLR randomization Thomas Garnier via Virtualization
2018-03-13 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 01/27] x86/crypto: Adapt assembly for PIE support Thomas Garnier via Virtualization
2018-03-13 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 02/27] x86: Use symbol name on bug table " Thomas Garnier via Virtualization
2018-03-13 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 03/27] x86: Use symbol name in jump " Thomas Garnier via Virtualization
2018-03-13 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 04/27] x86: Add macro to get symbol address " Thomas Garnier via Virtualization
2018-03-13 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 05/27] x86: relocate_kernel - Adapt assembly " Thomas Garnier via Virtualization
2018-03-13 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 06/27] x86/entry/64: " Thomas Garnier via Virtualization
2018-03-13 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 07/27] x86: pm-trace - " Thomas Garnier via Virtualization
2018-03-13 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 08/27] x86/CPU: " Thomas Garnier via Virtualization
2018-03-13 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 09/27] x86/acpi: " Thomas Garnier via Virtualization
2018-03-13 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 10/27] x86/boot/64: " Thomas Garnier via Virtualization
2018-03-13 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 11/27] x86/power/64: " Thomas Garnier via Virtualization
2018-03-13 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 12/27] x86/paravirt: " Thomas Garnier via Virtualization
2018-03-13 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 13/27] x86/boot/64: Build head64.c as mcmodel large when PIE is enabled Thomas Garnier via Virtualization
2018-03-13 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 14/27] x86/percpu: Adapt percpu for PIE support Thomas Garnier via Virtualization
2018-03-13 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 15/27] compiler: Option to default to hidden symbols Thomas Garnier via Virtualization
2018-03-13 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 16/27] compiler: Option to add PROVIDE_HIDDEN replacement for weak symbols Thomas Garnier via Virtualization
2018-03-13 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 17/27] x86/relocs: Handle PIE relocations Thomas Garnier via Virtualization
2018-03-13 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 18/27] xen: Adapt assembly for PIE support Thomas Garnier via Virtualization
2018-03-13 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 19/27] kvm: " Thomas Garnier via Virtualization
2018-03-13 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 20/27] x86: Support global stack cookie Thomas Garnier via Virtualization
2018-03-13 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 21/27] x86/ftrace: Adapt function tracing for PIE support Thomas Garnier via Virtualization
2018-03-13 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 22/27] x86/modules: Add option to start module section after kernel Thomas Garnier via Virtualization
2018-03-13 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 23/27] x86/modules: Adapt module loading for PIE support Thomas Garnier via Virtualization
2018-03-13 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 24/27] x86/mm: Make the x86 GOT read-only Thomas Garnier via Virtualization
2018-03-13 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 25/27] x86/pie: Add option to build the kernel as PIE Thomas Garnier via Virtualization
2018-03-13 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 26/27] x86/relocs: Add option to generate 64-bit relocations Thomas Garnier via Virtualization
2018-03-13 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 27/27] x86/kaslr: Add option to extend KASLR range from 1GB to 3GB Thomas Garnier via Virtualization
     [not found] ` <20180313205945.245105-7-thgarnie@google.com>
2018-03-14 10:29   ` [PATCH v2 06/27] x86/entry/64: Adapt assembly for PIE support Peter Zijlstra
     [not found]     ` <alpine.DEB.2.20.1803141051210.14471@nuc-kabylake>
2018-03-14 17:09       ` Thomas Garnier via Virtualization
2018-03-15 10:18       ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
     [not found] ` <20180313205945.245105-22-thgarnie@google.com>
2018-03-14 10:35   ` [PATCH v2 21/27] x86/ftrace: Adapt function tracing " Peter Zijlstra
2018-03-15  8:48 ` [PATCH v2 00/27] x86: PIE support and option to extend KASLR randomization Pavel Machek

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