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Commit 3f7d8755 authored by Andi Kleen's avatar Andi Kleen Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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x86/retpoline: Optimize inline assembler for vmexit_fill_RSB



The generated assembler for the C fill RSB inline asm operations has
several issues:

- The C code sets up the loop register, which is then immediately
  overwritten in __FILL_RETURN_BUFFER with the same value again.

- The C code also passes in the iteration count in another register, which
  is not used at all.

Remove these two unnecessary operations. Just rely on the single constant
passed to the macro for the iterations.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180117225328.15414-1-andi@firstfloor.org
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