x86/entry/64: Introduce the PUSH_AND_CLEAN_REGS macro
authorDominik Brodowski <[email protected]>
Sun, 11 Feb 2018 10:49:45 +0000 (11:49 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>
Tue, 13 Feb 2018 08:04:53 +0000 (09:04 +0100)
commit3f01daecd545e818098d84fd1ad43e19a508d705
treed70e4a362d5c8c41ef771107726a8e0ff4972d69
parentf7bafa2b05ef25eda1d9179fd930b0330cf2b7d1
x86/entry/64: Introduce the PUSH_AND_CLEAN_REGS macro

Those instances where ALLOC_PT_GPREGS_ON_STACK is called just before
SAVE_AND_CLEAR_REGS can trivially be replaced by PUSH_AND_CLEAN_REGS.
This macro uses PUSH instead of MOV and should therefore be faster, at
least on newer CPUs.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
arch/x86/entry/calling.h
arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S