This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

x86/entry/64: Simplify reg restore code in the standard IRET paths

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: x86-entry-64-simplify-reg-restore-code-in-the-standard-iret-paths.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From e872045bfd9c465a8555bab4b8567d56a4d2d3bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 00:59:01 -0700 Subject: x86/entry/64: Simplify reg restore code in the standard IRET paths

From: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org

commit e872045bfd9c465a8555bab4b8567d56a4d2d3bb upstream.

The old code restored all the registers with movq instead of pop.

In theory, this was done because some CPUs have higher movq throughput, but any gain there would be tiny and is almost certainly outweighed by the higher text size.

This saves 96 bytes of text.

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/ad82520a207ccd851b04ba613f4f752b33ac05f7.1509609304... Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- arch/x86/entry/calling.h | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 12 ++++++------ 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/entry/calling.h +++ b/arch/x86/entry/calling.h @@ -152,6 +152,27 @@ For 32-bit we have the following convent UNWIND_HINT_REGS offset=\offset extra=0 .endm

+ .macro POP_EXTRA_REGS + popq %r15 + popq %r14 + popq %r13 + popq %r12 + popq %rbp + popq %rbx + .endm + + .macro POP_C_REGS + popq %r11 + popq %r10 + popq %r9 + popq %r8 + popq %rax + popq %rcx + popq %rdx + popq %rsi + popq %rdi + .endm + .macro RESTORE_C_REGS_HELPER rstor_rax=1, rstor_rcx=1, rstor_r11=1, rstor_r8910=1, rstor_rdx=1 .if \rstor_r11 movq 6*8(%rsp), %r11 --- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S @@ -619,9 +619,9 @@ GLOBAL(swapgs_restore_regs_and_return_to 1: #endif SWAPGS - RESTORE_EXTRA_REGS - RESTORE_C_REGS - REMOVE_PT_GPREGS_FROM_STACK 8 + POP_EXTRA_REGS + POP_C_REGS + addq $8, %rsp /* skip regs->orig_ax */ INTERRUPT_RETURN

@@ -651,9 +651,9 @@ GLOBAL(restore_regs_and_return_to_kernel ud2 1: #endif - RESTORE_EXTRA_REGS - RESTORE_C_REGS - REMOVE_PT_GPREGS_FROM_STACK 8 + POP_EXTRA_REGS + POP_C_REGS + addq $8, %rsp /* skip regs->orig_ax */ INTERRUPT_RETURN

ENTRY(native_iret)

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from luto@kernel.org are

queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-simplify-reg-restore-code-in-the-standard-iret-paths.patch queue-4.14/x86-cpufeatures-fix-various-details-in-the-feature-definitions.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-move-the-ist-stacks-into-struct-cpu_entry_area.patch queue-4.14/x86-dumpstack-add-get_stack_info-support-for-the-sysenter-stack.patch queue-4.14/x86-asm-don-t-use-the-confusing-.ifeq-directive.patch queue-4.14/selftests-x86-ldt_gdt-add-infrastructure-to-test-set_thread_area.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-remap-the-tss-into-the-cpu-entry-area.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-paravirt-use-paravirt-safe-macro-to-access-eflags.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-fixmap-generalize-the-gdt-fixmap-mechanism-introduce-struct-cpu_entry_area.patch queue-4.14/x86-paravirt-dont-patch-flush_tlb_single.patch queue-4.14/x86-dumpstack-handle-stack-overflow-on-all-stacks.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-use-pop-instead-of-movq-in-syscall_return_via_sysret.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-return-to-userspace-from-the-trampoline-stack.patch queue-4.14/x86-paravirt-provide-a-way-to-check-for-hypervisors.patch queue-4.14/xen-x86-entry-64-add-xen-nmi-trap-entry.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-remove-the-restore_c_regs_and_iret-label.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-create-a-per-cpu-syscall-entry-trampoline.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-remove-the-restore_..._regs-infrastructure.patch queue-4.14/x86-xen-64-x86-entry-64-clean-up-sp-code-in-cpu_initialize_context.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-add-task_top_of_stack-to-find-the-top-of-a-task-s-stack.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-remove-all-remaining-direct-thread_struct-sp0-reads.patch queue-4.14/x86-boot-relocate-definition-of-the-initial-state-of-cr0.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-stop-initializing-tss.sp0-at-boot.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-de-xen-ify-our-nmi-code.patch queue-4.14/objtool-don-t-report-end-of-section-error-after-an-empty-unwind-hint.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-pass-sp0-directly-to-load_sp0.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-use-a-per-cpu-trampoline-stack-for-idt-entries.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-move-swapgs-into-the-common-iret-to-usermode-path.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-shorten-test-instructions.patch queue-4.14/x86-cpufeature-add-user-mode-instruction-prevention-definitions.patch queue-4.14/x86-cpufeatures-make-cpu-bugs-sticky.patch queue-4.14/x86-espfix-64-stop-assuming-that-pt_regs-is-on-the-entry-stack.patch queue-4.14/x86-traps-use-a-new-on_thread_stack-helper-to-clean-up-an-assertion.patch queue-4.14/x86-xen-fix-xen-head-elf-annotations.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-remove-thread_struct-sp0.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-move-sysenter_stack-to-the-beginning-of-struct-tss_struct.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-allocate-and-enable-the-sysenter-stack.patch queue-4.14/x86-unwinder-orc-dont-bail-on-stack-overflow.patch queue-4.14/x86-head-fix-head-elf-function-annotations.patch queue-4.14/selftests-x86-ldt_gdt-run-most-existing-ldt-test-cases-against-the-gdt-as-well.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-32-pull-the-msr_ia32_sysenter_cs-update-code-out-of-native_load_sp0.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-split-the-iret-to-user-and-iret-to-kernel-paths.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-shrink-paranoid_exit_restore-and-make-labels-local.patch queue-4.14/x86-head-add-unwind-hint-annotations.patch queue-4.14/x86-head-remove-unused-bad_address-code.patch queue-4.14/x86-xen-add-unwind-hint-annotations.patch queue-4.14/x86-kasan-64-teach-kasan-about-the-cpu_entry_area.patch queue-4.14/x86-head-remove-confusing-comment.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-remove-the-sysenter-stack-canary.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-kasan-don-t-use-vmemmap_populate-to-initialize-shadow.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-gdt-put-per-cpu-gdt-remaps-in-ascending-order.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-fix-assumptions-that-the-hw-tss-is-at-the-beginning-of-cpu_tss.patch queue-4.14/x86-cpufeatures-re-tabulate-the-x86_feature-definitions.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-32-fix-cpu_current_top_of_stack-initialization-at-boot.patch queue-4.14/ptrace-x86-make-user_64bit_mode-available-to-32-bit-builds.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-make-cpu_entry_area.tss-read-only.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-relocate-page-fault-error-codes-to-traps.h.patch queue-4.14/x86-unwinder-handle-stack-overflows-more-gracefully.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-use-pop-instead-of-mov-to-restore-regs-on-nmi-return.patch queue-4.14/x86-irq-64-print-the-offending-ip-in-the-stack-overflow-warning.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-clean-up-the-sysenter_stack-code.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-merge-the-fast-and-slow-sysret-paths.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-separate-cpu_current_top_of_stack-from-tss.sp0.patch queue-4.14/x86-boot-annotate-verify_cpu-as-a-callable-function.patch queue-4.14/x86-irq-remove-an-old-outdated-comment-about-context-tracking-races.patch