Commit-ID: d7acb92fea932ad2e7846480aeacddc2c03c8485
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/d7acb92fea932ad2e7846480aeacddc2c03c8485
Author: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:00:29 -0700
Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:00:29 -0700
x86-64, asm: If the assembler supports fxsave64, use it
Kbuild allows for us to probe for the existence of specific constructs
in the assembler, use them to find out if we can use fxsave64 and
permit the compiler to generate better code.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/Makefile | 8 ++++++--
arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
index 8aa1b59..40668a9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
@@ -96,8 +96,12 @@ cfi := $(call as-instr,.cfi_startproc\n.cfi_rel_offset $(sp-y)$(comma)0\n.cfi_en
# is .cfi_signal_frame supported too?
cfi-sigframe := $(call as-instr,.cfi_startproc\n.cfi_signal_frame\n.cfi_endproc,-DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1)
cfi-sections := $(call as-instr,.cfi_sections .debug_frame,-DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1)
-KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(cfi) $(cfi-sigframe) $(cfi-sections)
-KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(cfi) $(cfi-sigframe) $(cfi-sections)
+
+# does binutils support specific instructions?
+asinstr := $(call as-instr,fxsaveq (%rax),-DCONFIG_AS_FXSAVEQ=1)
+
+KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(cfi) $(cfi-sigframe) $(cfi-sections) $(asinstr)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(cfi) $(cfi-sigframe) $(cfi-sections) $(asinstr)
LDFLAGS := -m elf_$(UTS_MACHINE)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h
index a73a8d5..70f105b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ static inline void fpu_fxsave(struct fpu *fpu)
uses any extended registers for addressing, a second REX prefix
will be generated (to the assembler, rex64 followed by semicolon
is a separate instruction), and hence the 64-bitness is lost. */
-#if 0
+#ifdef CONFIG_AS_FXSAVEQ
/* Using "fxsaveq %0" would be the ideal choice, but is only supported
starting with gas 2.16. */
__asm__ __volatile__("fxsaveq %0"
--
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