From e06fc5b3f4c084453bad0d92f40888aad431d9bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andi Kleen Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 14:53:28 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 090/103] x86/retpoline: Optimize inline assembler for vmexit_fill_RSB commit 3f7d875566d8e79c5e0b2c9a413e91b2c29e0854 upstream. The generated assembler for the C fill RSB inline asm operations has several issues: - The C code sets up the loop register, which is then immediately overwritten in __FILL_RETURN_BUFFER with the same value again. - The C code also passes in the iteration count in another register, which is not used at all. Remove these two unnecessary operations. Just rely on the single constant passed to the macro for the iterations. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: David Woodhouse Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180117225328.15414-1-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h index 19ba5ad..4ad4108 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h @@ -206,16 +206,17 @@ extern char __indirect_thunk_end[]; static inline void vmexit_fill_RSB(void) { #ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE - unsigned long loops = RSB_CLEAR_LOOPS / 2; + unsigned long loops; asm volatile (ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE ALTERNATIVE("jmp 910f", __stringify(__FILL_RETURN_BUFFER(%0, RSB_CLEAR_LOOPS, %1)), X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE) "910:" - : "=&r" (loops), ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT - : "r" (loops) : "memory" ); + : "=r" (loops), ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT + : : "memory" ); #endif } + #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */ #endif /* __NOSPEC_BRANCH_H__ */ -- 2.7.4