x86/entry: Do not special-case clone(2) in compat entry

With the CPU renaming registers on its own, and all the overhead of the
syscall entry/exit, it is doubtful whether the compiled output of

	mov	%r8, %rax
	mov	%rcx, %r8
	mov	%rax, %rcx
	jmpq	sys_clone

is measurably slower than the hand-crafted version of

	xchg	%r8, %rcx

So get rid of this special case.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: luto@amacapital.net
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Dominik Brodowski
2018-03-06 22:18:08 +01:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
vanhempi 4ddb45db30
commit af52201d99
4 muutettua tiedostoa jossa 14 lisäystä ja 13 poistoa

Näytä tiedosto

@@ -406,15 +406,3 @@ ENTRY(entry_INT80_compat)
TRACE_IRQS_ON
jmp swapgs_restore_regs_and_return_to_usermode
END(entry_INT80_compat)
ENTRY(stub32_clone)
/*
* The 32-bit clone ABI is: clone(..., int tls_val, int *child_tidptr).
* The 64-bit clone ABI is: clone(..., int *child_tidptr, int tls_val).
*
* The native 64-bit kernel's sys_clone() implements the latter,
* so we need to swap arguments here before calling it:
*/
xchg %r8, %rcx
jmp sys_clone
ENDPROC(stub32_clone)

Näytä tiedosto

@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@
117 i386 ipc sys_ipc compat_sys_ipc
118 i386 fsync sys_fsync
119 i386 sigreturn sys_sigreturn sys32_sigreturn
120 i386 clone sys_clone stub32_clone
120 i386 clone sys_clone compat_sys_x86_clone
121 i386 setdomainname sys_setdomainname
122 i386 uname sys_newuname
123 i386 modify_ldt sys_modify_ldt