Commit 772951c4 authored Apr 07, 2015 by Denys Vlasenko Committed by Ingo Molnar Apr 09, 2015

x86/asm/entry/64: Optimize [v]fork/clone stubs

Replace "call func; ret" with "jmp func".

Run-tested.

Signed-off-by: Denys 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: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428439424-7258-4-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

parent 0f90fb97

arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S

+1 −2

Original line number	Original line	Diff line number	Diff line
	@@ -484,8 +484,7 @@ ENTRY(stub_\func)
	CFI_STARTPROC		CFI_STARTPROC
	DEFAULT_FRAME 0, 8 /* offset 8: return address */		DEFAULT_FRAME 0, 8 /* offset 8: return address */
	SAVE_EXTRA_REGS 8		SAVE_EXTRA_REGS 8
	call sys_\func		jmp sys_\func
	ret
	CFI_ENDPROC		CFI_ENDPROC
	END(stub_\func)		END(stub_\func)
	.endm		.endm

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