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[PATCH 5/5] x86/alternatives: Discard dynamic check after init

From Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH 5/5] x86/alternatives: Discard dynamic check after init
Date 2016-01-21 19:40 +0100
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From: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>

Move the code to do the dynamic check to the altinstr_aux section so
that it is discarded after alternatives have run and a static branch has
been chosen.

Boris: change it to do TESTB, as hpa suggests.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452972124-7380-1-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 17 +++++++++++------
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c      |  6 ------
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
index e4759223f82c..77c51f4c15b7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
@@ -131,7 +131,6 @@ extern const char * const x86_bug_flags[NBUGINTS*32];
 
 #if __GNUC__ >= 4 && defined(CONFIG_X86_FAST_FEATURE_TESTS)
 extern void warn_pre_alternatives(void);
-extern bool __static_cpu_has(u16 bit);
 
 /*
  * Static testing of CPU features.  Used the same as boot_cpu_has().
@@ -141,7 +140,7 @@ extern bool __static_cpu_has(u16 bit);
 static __always_inline __pure bool _static_cpu_has(u16 bit)
 {
 #ifdef CC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO
-		asm_volatile_goto("1: jmp %l[t_dynamic]\n"
+		asm_volatile_goto("1: jmp 6f\n"
 			 "2:\n"
 			 ".skip -(((5f-4f) - (2b-1b)) > 0) * "
 			         "((5f-4f) - (2b-1b)),0x90\n"
@@ -166,13 +165,19 @@ static __always_inline __pure bool _static_cpu_has(u16 bit)
 			 " .byte 0\n"			/* repl len */
 			 " .byte 0\n"			/* pad len */
 			 ".previous\n"
-			 : : "i" (bit), "i" (X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS)
-			 : : t_dynamic, t_no);
+			 ".section .altinstr_aux,\"ax\"\n"
+			 "6: testb %[bitnum],%[cap_word]\n"
+			 "   jnz %l[t_yes]\n"
+			 "   jmp %l[t_no]\n"
+			 ".previous\n"
+			 : : "i" (bit), "i" (X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS),
+			     [bitnum] "i" (1 << (bit & 7)),
+			     [cap_word] "m" (((const char *)boot_cpu_data.x86_capability)[bit >> 3])
+			 : : t_yes, t_no);
+	t_yes:
 		return true;
 	t_no:
 		return false;
-	t_dynamic:
-		return __static_cpu_has(bit);
 #else
 		return boot_cpu_has(bit);
 #endif /* CC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index a57ec0df9cc3..897c65bd3faa 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -1483,12 +1483,6 @@ void warn_pre_alternatives(void)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(warn_pre_alternatives);
 #endif
 
-inline bool __static_cpu_has(u16 bit)
-{
-	return boot_cpu_has(bit);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__static_cpu_has);
-
 static void bsp_resume(void)
 {
 	if (this_cpu->c_bsp_resume)
-- 
2.3.5

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[PATCH 5/5] x86/alternatives: Discard dynamic check after init Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-01-21 19:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 5/5] x86/alternatives: Discard dynamic check after init "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-01-21 20:10 +0100

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