Commit 8a3abe30 authored by Arvind Sankar's avatar Arvind Sankar Committed by Ard Biesheuvel

x86/boot: Micro-optimize GDT loading instructions

Rearrange the instructions a bit to use a 32-bit displacement once
instead of 2/3 times. This saves 8 bytes of machine code.
Signed-off-by: default avatarArvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200202171353.3736319-8-nivedita@alum.mit.eduSigned-off-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
parent b75e2b07
......@@ -69,8 +69,9 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(startup_32)
subl $1b, %ebp
/* Load new GDT with the 64bit segments using 32bit descriptor */
addl %ebp, gdt+2(%ebp)
lgdt gdt(%ebp)
leal gdt(%ebp), %eax
movl %eax, 2(%eax)
lgdt (%eax)
/* Load segment registers with our descriptors */
movl $__BOOT_DS, %eax
......@@ -355,9 +356,9 @@ SYM_CODE_START(startup_64)
*/
/* Make sure we have GDT with 32-bit code segment */
leaq gdt(%rip), %rax
movq %rax, gdt64+2(%rip)
lgdt gdt64(%rip)
leaq gdt64(%rip), %rax
addq %rax, 2(%rax)
lgdt (%rax)
/*
* paging_prepare() sets up the trampoline and checks if we need to
......@@ -625,12 +626,12 @@ SYM_FUNC_END(.Lno_longmode)
.data
SYM_DATA_START_LOCAL(gdt64)
.word gdt_end - gdt - 1
.quad 0
.quad gdt - gdt64
SYM_DATA_END(gdt64)
.balign 8
SYM_DATA_START_LOCAL(gdt)
.word gdt_end - gdt - 1
.long gdt
.long 0
.word 0
.quad 0x00cf9a000000ffff /* __KERNEL32_CS */
.quad 0x00af9a000000ffff /* __KERNEL_CS */
......
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