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authorDenys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>2015-05-15 22:39:06 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-05-17 07:57:54 +0200
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x86/asm/entry/64: Use shorter MOVs from segment registers
The "movw %ds,%cx" instruction needs a 0x66 prefix, while "movl %ds,%ecx" does not. The difference is that latter form (on 64-bit CPUs) overwrites the entire %ecx, not only its lower half. But subsequent code doesn't depend on the value of upper half of %ecx, so we can safely use the shorter instruction. The new code is also faster than the old one - now we don't depend on the old value of %ecx, but this code fragment is not performance-critical so it does not matter much. Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431722346-26585-1-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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