x86/mem: Move memmove to out of line assembler
When building ARCH=i386 with CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_FULL=y, it's possible (depending on additional configs which I have not been able to isolate) to observe a failure during register allocation: error: inline assembly requires more registers than available when memmove is inlined into tcp_v4_fill_cb() or tcp_v6_fill_cb(). memmove is quite large and probably shouldn't be inlined due to size alone. A noinline function attribute would be the simplest fix, but there's a few things that stand out with the current definition: In addition to having complex constraints that can't always be resolved, the clobber list seems to be missing %bx. By using numbered operands rather than symbolic operands, the constraints are quite obnoxious to refactor. Having a large function be 99% inline asm is a code smell that this function should simply be written in stand-alone out-of-line assembler. Moving this to out of line assembler guarantees that the compiler cannot inline calls to memmove. This has been done previously for 64b: commit 9599ec04 ("x86-64, mem: Convert memmove() to assembly file and fix return value bug") That gives the opportunity for other cleanups like fixing the inconsistent use of tabs vs spaces and instruction suffixes, and the label 3 appearing twice. Symbolic operands, local labels, and additional comments would provide this code with a fresh coat of paint. Finally, add a test that tickles the `rep movsl` implementation to test it for correctness, since it has implicit operands. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Suggested-by: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221018172155.287409-1-ndesaulniers%40google.com
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arch/x86/lib/memmove_32.S
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