Thread (11 messages) 11 messages, 5 authors, 2021-01-14

[PATCH] x86/entry: Remove put_ret_addr_in_rdi THUNK macro argument

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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Date: 2021-01-14 13:29:02
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Subsystem: the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit), x86 entry code · Maintainers: Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen, Andy Lutomirski

On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 12:36:45PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
And while looking, I suppose we can delete the put_ret_addr_in_rdi crud,
but that's another patch.
---
From: Borislav Petkov <redacted>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 14:25:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] x86/entry: Remove put_ret_addr_in_rdi THUNK macro argument

That logic is unused since

  320100a5ffe5 ("x86/entry: Remove the TRACE_IRQS cruft")

Remove it.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <redacted>
---
 arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S | 7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S b/arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S
index c9a9fbf1655f..496b11ec469d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 #include <asm/export.h>
 
 	/* rdi:	arg1 ... normal C conventions. rax is saved/restored. */
-	.macro THUNK name, func, put_ret_addr_in_rdi=0
+	.macro THUNK name, func
 SYM_FUNC_START_NOALIGN(\name)
 	pushq %rbp
 	movq %rsp, %rbp
@@ -25,11 +25,6 @@ SYM_FUNC_START_NOALIGN(\name)
 	pushq %r10
 	pushq %r11
 
-	.if \put_ret_addr_in_rdi
-	/* 8(%rbp) is return addr on stack */
-	movq 8(%rbp), %rdi
-	.endif
-
 	call \func
 	jmp  __thunk_restore
 SYM_FUNC_END(\name)
-- 
2.29.2

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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