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authorBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>2015-02-04 08:11:17 (GMT)
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>2015-02-23 12:54:14 (GMT)
commita77600cd03a44e54df99ea742e02f4899b82c8e1 (patch)
treee2567d4005ac6416691d666a1721e9cd01fbeafa /arch/x86/lib
parent84d95ad4cb9015ea953bf14cea05ba371d4d42bb (diff)
downloadlinux-a77600cd03a44e54df99ea742e02f4899b82c8e1.tar.xz
x86/lib/memmove_64.S: Convert memmove() to ALTERNATIVE macro
Make it execute the ERMS version if support is present and we're in the forward memmove() part and remove the unfolded alternatives section definition. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/lib')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/lib/memmove_64.S19
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/memmove_64.S b/arch/x86/lib/memmove_64.S
index bbfa6b2..0f8a0d0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/memmove_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/memmove_64.S
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
* This assembly file is re-written from memmove_64.c file.
* - Copyright 2011 Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
*/
-#define _STRING_C
#include <linux/linkage.h>
#include <asm/dwarf2.h>
#include <asm/cpufeature.h>
@@ -44,6 +43,8 @@ ENTRY(__memmove)
jg 2f
.Lmemmove_begin_forward:
+ ALTERNATIVE "", "movq %rdx, %rcx; rep movsb; retq", X86_FEATURE_ERMS
+
/*
* movsq instruction have many startup latency
* so we handle small size by general register.
@@ -207,21 +208,5 @@ ENTRY(__memmove)
13:
retq
CFI_ENDPROC
-
- .section .altinstr_replacement,"ax"
-.Lmemmove_begin_forward_efs:
- /* Forward moving data. */
- movq %rdx, %rcx
- rep movsb
- retq
-.Lmemmove_end_forward_efs:
- .previous
-
- .section .altinstructions,"a"
- altinstruction_entry .Lmemmove_begin_forward, \
- .Lmemmove_begin_forward_efs,X86_FEATURE_ERMS, \
- .Lmemmove_end_forward-.Lmemmove_begin_forward, \
- .Lmemmove_end_forward_efs-.Lmemmove_begin_forward_efs,0
- .previous
ENDPROC(__memmove)
ENDPROC(memmove)