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Commit a7bea830 authored by Jan Beulich's avatar Jan Beulich Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/asm/64: Use 32-bit XOR to zero registers



Some Intel CPUs don't recognize 64-bit XORs as zeroing idioms. Zeroing
idioms don't require execution bandwidth, as they're being taken care
of in the frontend (through register renaming). Use 32-bit XORs instead.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: pavel@ucw.cz
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5B39FF1A02000078001CFB54@prv1-mh.provo.novell.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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