x86/cpufeature: Replace the old static_cpu_has() with safe variant

So the old one didn't work properly before alternatives had run.
And it was supposed to provide an optimized JMP because the
assumption was that the offset it is jumping to is within a
signed byte and thus a two-byte JMP.

So I did an x86_64 allyesconfig build and dumped all possible
sites where static_cpu_has() was used. The optimization amounted
to all in all 12(!) places where static_cpu_has() had generated
a 2-byte JMP. Which has saved us a whopping 36 bytes!

This clearly is not worth the trouble so we can remove it. The
only place where the optimization might count - in __switch_to()
- we will handle differently. But that's not subject of this
patch.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
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: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453842730-28463-6-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Borislav Petkov
2016-01-26 22:12:05 +01:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent cd4d09ec6f
commit bc696ca05f
8 changed files with 21 additions and 125 deletions

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@@ -350,16 +350,6 @@ config DEBUG_IMR_SELFTEST
If unsure say N here.
config X86_DEBUG_STATIC_CPU_HAS
bool "Debug alternatives"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
---help---
This option causes additional code to be generated which
fails if static_cpu_has() is used before alternatives have
run.
If unsure, say N.
config X86_DEBUG_FPU
bool "Debug the x86 FPU code"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL