4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org
commit a512210643da8082cb44181dba8b18e752bd68f0 upstream.
They did almost the same thing. Remove a bunch of pointless instructions (mostly hidden in macros) and reduce cognitive load by merging them.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Cc: Borislav Petkov bpetkov@suse.de Cc: Brian Gerst brgerst@gmail.com Cc: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@intel.com Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1204e20233fcab9130a1ba80b3b1879b5db3fc1f.1509609304... Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S @@ -221,10 +221,9 @@ entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath: TRACE_IRQS_ON /* user mode is traced as IRQs on */ movq RIP(%rsp), %rcx movq EFLAGS(%rsp), %r11 - RESTORE_C_REGS_EXCEPT_RCX_R11 - movq RSP(%rsp), %rsp + addq $6*8, %rsp /* skip extra regs -- they were preserved */ UNWIND_HINT_EMPTY - USERGS_SYSRET64 + jmp .Lpop_c_regs_except_rcx_r11_and_sysret
1: /* @@ -318,6 +317,7 @@ syscall_return_via_sysret: /* rcx and r11 are already restored (see code above) */ UNWIND_HINT_EMPTY POP_EXTRA_REGS +.Lpop_c_regs_except_rcx_r11_and_sysret: popq %rsi /* skip r11 */ popq %r10 popq %r9