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x86/asm/entry/32: Remove unnecessary optimization in stub32_clone

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Really swap arguments #4 and #5 in stub32_clone instead of
"optimizing" it into a move.

Yes, tls_val is currently unused. Yes, on some CPUs XCHG is a
little bit more expensive than MOV. But a cycle or two on an
expensive syscall like clone() is way below noise floor, and
this optimization is simply not worth the obfuscation of logic.

[ There's also ongoing work on the clone() ABI by Josh Triplett
  that will depend on this change later on. ]

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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/1433339930-20880-2-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Denys Vlasenko 2015-06-03 15:58:50 +02:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 5cdc683b7d
commit 7a5a9824c1
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@ -529,14 +529,13 @@ GLOBAL(\label)
GLOBAL(stub32_clone)
leaq sys_clone(%rip), %rax
/*
* 32-bit clone API is clone(..., int tls_val, int *child_tidptr).
* 64-bit clone API is clone(..., int *child_tidptr, int tls_val).
* Native 64-bit kernel's sys_clone() implements the latter.
* We need to swap args here. But since tls_val is in fact ignored
* by sys_clone(), we can get away with an assignment
* (arg4 = arg5) instead of a full swap:
* The 32-bit clone ABI is: clone(..., int tls_val, int *child_tidptr).
* The 64-bit clone ABI is: clone(..., int *child_tidptr, int tls_val).
*
* The native 64-bit kernel's sys_clone() implements the latter,
* so we need to swap arguments here before calling it:
*/
mov %r8, %rcx
xchg %r8, %rcx
jmp ia32_ptregs_common
ALIGN