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author | Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net> | 2007-10-25 08:18:55 -0400 |
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committer | Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> | 2008-01-30 10:52:56 -0500 |
commit | ff593e5abebd899b0b41c11280e2fbeff4103375 (patch) | |
tree | d4ebafad5ab7a358114e82acd251379d01ba6855 /drivers/kvm/svm.c | |
parent | c20363006af64cf397519da5e984b18e6bdffd82 (diff) |
KVM: VMX: Let gcc to choose which registers to save (i386)
This patch lets GCC to determine which registers to save when we
switch to/from a VCPU in the case of intel i386.
* Original code saves following registers:
eax, ebx, ecx, edx, edi, esi, ebp (using popa)
* Patched code:
- informs GCC that we modify following registers
using the clobber description:
ebx, edi, rsi
- doesn't save eax because it is an output operand (vmx->fail)
- cannot put ecx in clobber description because it is an input operand,
but as we modify it and we want to keep its value (vcpu), we must
save it (pop/push)
- ebp is saved (pop/push) because GCC seems to ignore its use the clobber
description.
- edx is saved (pop/push) because it is reserved by GCC (REGPARM) and
cannot be put in the clobber description.
- line "mov (%%esp), %3 \n\t" has been removed because %3
is ecx and ecx is restored just after.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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