3.16.56-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 3f7d875566d8e79c5e0b2c9a413e91b2c29e0854 upstream. 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: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx Cc: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180117225328.15414-1-andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust contex] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h @@ -183,15 +183,16 @@ extern char __indirect_thunk_end[]; static inline void vmexit_fill_RSB(void) { #ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE - unsigned long loops = RSB_CLEAR_LOOPS / 2; + unsigned long loops; asm volatile (ALTERNATIVE("jmp 910f", __stringify(__FILL_RETURN_BUFFER(%0, RSB_CLEAR_LOOPS, %1)), X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE) "910:" - : "=&r" (loops), ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT - : "r" (loops) : "memory" ); + : "=r" (loops), ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT + : : "memory" ); #endif } + #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */ #endif /* __NOSPEC_BRANCH_H__ */