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    x86/asm/entry/64: Use shorter MOVs from segment registers · adeb5537
    Denys Vlasenko authored
    The "movw %ds,%cx" instruction needs a 0x66 prefix, while
    "movl %ds,%ecx" does not.
    
    The difference is that latter form (on 64-bit CPUs)
    overwrites the entire %ecx, not only its lower half.
    
    But subsequent code doesn't depend on the value of upper
    half of %ecx, so we can safely use the shorter instruction.
    
    The new code is also faster than the old one - now we don't
    depend on the old value of %ecx, but this code fragment is
    not performance-critical so it does not matter much.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDenys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
    Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
    Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
    Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
    Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
    Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431722346-26585-1-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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