Uros Bizjak 4b1e54786e KVM/x86: Use assembly instruction mnemonics instead of .byte streams ... Recently the minimum required version of binutils was changed to 2.20, which supports all VMX instruction mnemonics. The patch removes all .byte #defines and uses real instruction mnemonics instead. The compiler is now able to pass memory operand to the instruction, so there is no need for memory clobber anymore. Also, the compiler adds CC register clobber automatically to all extended asm clauses, so the patch also removes explicit CC clobber. The immediate benefit of the patch is removal of many unnecesary register moves, resulting in 1434 saved bytes in vmx.o: text data bss dec hex filename 151257 18246 8500 178003 2b753 vmx.o 152691 18246 8500 179437 2bced vmx-old.o Some examples of improvement include removal of unneeded moves of %rsp to %rax in front of invept and invvpid instructions: a57e: b9 01 00 00 00 mov $0x1,%ecx a583: 48 89 04 24 mov %rax,(%rsp) a587: 48 89 e0 mov %rsp,%rax a58a: 48 c7 44 24 08 00 00 movq $0x0,0x8(%rsp) a591: 00 00 a593: 66 0f 38 80 08 invept (%rax),%rcx to: a45c: 48 89 04 24 mov %rax,(%rsp) a460: b8 01 00 00 00 mov $0x1,%eax a465: 48 c7 44 24 08 00 00 movq $0x0,0x8(%rsp) a46c: 00 00 a46e: 66 0f 38 80 04 24 invept (%rsp),%rax and the ability to use more optimal registers and memory operands in the instruction: 8faa: 48 8b 44 24 28 mov 0x28(%rsp),%rax 8faf: 4c 89 c2 mov %r8,%rdx 8fb2: 0f 79 d0 vmwrite %rax,%rdx to: 8e7c: 44 0f 79 44 24 28 vmwrite 0x28(%rsp),%r8 Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>		2018-10-17 00:30:08 +02:00
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asm	KVM/x86: Use assembly instruction mnemonics instead of .byte streams	2018-10-17 00:30:08 +02:00
uapi/asm	x86/kvm/lapic: always disable MMIO interface in x2APIC mode	2018-09-20 00:26:43 +02:00