x86/asm: Cleanup prefetch primitives

Browse source

This is based on a patch originally by hpa.

With the current improvements to the alternatives, we can simply use %P1
as a mem8 operand constraint and rely on the toolchain to generate the
proper instruction sizes. For example, on 32-bit, where we use an empty
old instruction we get:

  apply_alternatives: feat: 6*32+8, old: (c104648b, len: 4), repl: (c195566c, len: 4)
  c104648b: alt_insn: 90 90 90 90
  c195566c: rpl_insn: 0f 0d 4b 5c

  ...

  apply_alternatives: feat: 6*32+8, old: (c18e09b4, len: 3), repl: (c1955948, len: 3)
  c18e09b4: alt_insn: 90 90 90
  c1955948: rpl_insn: 0f 0d 08

  ...

  apply_alternatives: feat: 6*32+8, old: (c1190cf9, len: 7), repl: (c1955a79, len: 7)
  c1190cf9: alt_insn: 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
  c1955a79: rpl_insn: 0f 0d 0d a0 d4 85 c1

all with the proper padding done depending on the size of the
replacement instruction the compiler generates.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

...

This commit is contained in:

Borislav Petkov 2015-01-18 17:48:18 +01:00

parent c70e1b475f

commit a930dc4543

3 changed files with 13 additions and 10 deletions

Show all changes Ignore whitespace when comparing lines Ignore changes in amount of whitespace Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL

Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

2

arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h

View file

16

arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h

View file

5

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c

View file