Re: [PATCH] x86/kvm/VMX: drop bad asm() clobber from nested_vmx_check_vmentry_hw()

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On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 02:45:44AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> While upstream gcc doesn't detect conflicts on cc (yet), it really
> should, and hence "cc" should not be specified for asm()-s also having
> "=@cc<cond>" outputs. (It is quite pointless anyway to specify a "cc"
> clobber in x86 inline assembly, since the compiler assumes it to be
> always clobbered, and has no means [yet] to suppress this behavior.)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

FWIW (mostly to satisfy my curiosity):

Fixes: bbc0b8239257 ("KVM: nVMX: Capture VM-Fail via CC_{SET,OUT} in nested early checks")

Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>

> 
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
> @@ -2781,7 +2781,7 @@ static int nested_vmx_check_vmentry_hw(s
>  		[launched]"i"(offsetof(struct loaded_vmcs, launched)),
>  		[host_state_rsp]"i"(offsetof(struct loaded_vmcs, host_state.rsp)),
>  		[wordsize]"i"(sizeof(ulong))
> -	      : "cc", "memory"
> +	      : "memory"
>  	);
>  
>  	if (vmx->msr_autoload.host.nr)
> 
> 



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