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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Subject: [PATCH] x86/alternatives: Force inline stac() and clac()
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 17:08:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1408378137-16138-1-git-send-email-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> (raw)

In this case, we know better than the compiler.

gcc 4.7 (Debian Wheezy) chooses to create translation-unit-local functions
(even for non-debug builds) named stac() and clac(), and calls them.

$ objdump -d xen-syms | grep -c "<stac>:"
6

$ objdump -d xen-syms | grep -o "callq  [0-9a-f]\+ <stac>" | uniq -c
      5 callq  ffff82d0801166c9 <stac>
     20 callq  ffff82d08015ef99 <stac>
      4 callq  ffff82d080165169 <stac>
      8 callq  ffff82d080188cb9 <stac>
      3 callq  ffff82d080228779 <stac>
      4 callq  ffff82d08022c5c9 <stac>

Forcing always_inline removes these functions, and replaces each of the callqs
with the expected 3byte nops.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
CC: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
---
 xen/include/asm-x86/asm_defns.h |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xen/include/asm-x86/asm_defns.h b/xen/include/asm-x86/asm_defns.h
index f8ef1f8..1674c7c 100644
--- a/xen/include/asm-x86/asm_defns.h
+++ b/xen/include/asm-x86/asm_defns.h
@@ -179,13 +179,13 @@ void ret_from_intr(void);
 #define ASM_STAC ASM_AC(STAC)
 #define ASM_CLAC ASM_AC(CLAC)
 #else
-static inline void clac(void)
+static always_inline void clac(void)
 {
     /* Note: a barrier is implicit in alternative() */
     alternative(ASM_NOP3, __stringify(__ASM_CLAC), X86_FEATURE_SMAP);
 }
 
-static inline void stac(void)
+static always_inline void stac(void)
 {
     /* Note: a barrier is implicit in alternative() */
     alternative(ASM_NOP3, __stringify(__ASM_STAC), X86_FEATURE_SMAP);
-- 
1.7.10.4

             reply	other threads:[~2014-08-18 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-18 16:08 Andrew Cooper [this message]
2014-08-18 20:40 ` [PATCH] x86/alternatives: Force inline stac() and clac() Jan Beulich
2014-08-18 23:21   ` Andrew Cooper

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