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author | Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> | 2009-11-25 14:18:26 -0500 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-11-26 04:33:58 -0500 |
commit | 79b0379cee09b00ef309384aff652e328e438c79 (patch) | |
tree | 5a87d096d1f05b47f8372eda2523b1e1c830be23 /arch/x86/include/asm/system.h | |
parent | 3c93ca00eeeb774c7dd666cc7286a9e90c53e998 (diff) |
x86: Optimize loadsegment()
Zero the input register in the exception handler instead of
using an extra register to pass in a zero value.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1259176706-5908-1-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/system.h')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/system.h | 15 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/system.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/system.h index 1a953e26401c..537395a2877a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/system.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/system.h | |||
@@ -156,18 +156,19 @@ extern void native_load_gs_index(unsigned); | |||
156 | * segment if something goes wrong.. | 156 | * segment if something goes wrong.. |
157 | */ | 157 | */ |
158 | #define loadsegment(seg, value) \ | 158 | #define loadsegment(seg, value) \ |
159 | do { \ | ||
160 | unsigned short __val = value; \ | ||
159 | asm volatile("\n" \ | 161 | asm volatile("\n" \ |
160 | "1:\t" \ | 162 | "1:\t" \ |
161 | "movl %k0,%%" #seg "\n" \ | 163 | "movl %k0,%%" #seg "\n" \ |
162 | "2:\n" \ | ||
163 | ".section .fixup,\"ax\"\n" \ | 164 | ".section .fixup,\"ax\"\n" \ |
164 | "3:\t" \ | 165 | "2:\t" \ |
165 | "movl %k1, %%" #seg "\n\t" \ | 166 | "xorl %k0,%k0\n\t" \ |
166 | "jmp 2b\n" \ | 167 | "jmp 1b\n" \ |
167 | ".previous\n" \ | 168 | ".previous\n" \ |
168 | _ASM_EXTABLE(1b,3b) \ | 169 | _ASM_EXTABLE(1b, 2b) \ |
169 | : :"r" (value), "r" (0) : "memory") | 170 | : "+r" (__val) : : "memory"); \ |
170 | 171 | } while (0) | |
171 | 172 | ||
172 | /* | 173 | /* |
173 | * Save a segment register away | 174 | * Save a segment register away |