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authorBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>2016-05-30 12:56:27 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-06-08 15:01:02 +0200
commitf5967101e9de12addcda4510dfbac66d7c5779c3 (patch)
tree2f01f9e5eb430728ebecd5abff9851fafb5c8c62 /arch/x86/kernel/x8664_ksyms_64.c
parent08dd8cd06ed95625b9e2fac43c78fcb45b7eaf94 (diff)
downloadlinux-f5967101e9de12addcda4510dfbac66d7c5779c3.tar.gz
x86/hweight: Get rid of the special calling convention
People complained about ARCH_HWEIGHT_CFLAGS and how it throws a wrench
into kcov, lto, etc, experimentations.

Add asm versions for __sw_hweight{32,64}() and do explicit saving and
restoring of clobbered registers. This gets rid of the special calling
convention. We get to call those functions on !X86_FEATURE_POPCNT CPUs.

We still need to hardcode POPCNT and register operands as some old gas
versions which we support, do not know about POPCNT.

Btw, remove redundant REX prefix from 32-bit POPCNT because alternatives
can do padding now.

Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
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: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464605787-20603-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/x8664_ksyms_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/x8664_ksyms_64.c
index cd05942bc918..f1aebfb49c36 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/x8664_ksyms_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/x8664_ksyms_64.c
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_page);
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(csum_partial);
 
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__sw_hweight32);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__sw_hweight64);
+
 /*
  * Export string functions. We normally rely on gcc builtin for most of these,
  * but gcc sometimes decides not to inline them.