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SubjectRe: [PATCH RESEND] x86/asm/entry/32: simplify pushes of zeroed pt_regs->REGs
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 7:56 AM, Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> wrote:
> Use of a temporary R8 register here seems to be unnecessary.
>
> "push %r8" is a two-byte insn (it needs REX prefix to specify R8),
> "push $0" is two-byte too. It seems just using the latter would be
> no worse.
>
> Thus, code had an unnecessary "xorq %r8,%r8" insn.
> It probably costs nothing in execution time here since we are probably
> limited by store bandwidth at this point, but still.
>
> Run-tested under QEMU: 32-bit calls still work:

Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

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