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[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.13 81/85] KVM: s390: get rid of register asm usage

From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-07-04 23:07:17
Also in: kvm, linux-s390, lkml
Subsystem: kernel virtual machine for s390 (kvm/s390), s390 architecture, the rest · Maintainers: Christian Borntraeger, Janosch Frank, Claudio Imbrenda, Heiko Carstens, Vasily Gorbik, Alexander Gordeev, Linus Torvalds

From: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>

[ Upstream commit 4fa3b91bdee1b08348c82660668ca0ca34e271ad ]

Using register asm statements has been proven to be very error prone,
especially when using code instrumentation where gcc may add function
calls, which clobbers register contents in an unexpected way.

Therefore get rid of register asm statements in kvm code, even though
there is currently nothing wrong with them. This way we know for sure
that this bug class won't be introduced here.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210621140356.1210771-1-hca@linux.ibm.com (local)
[borntraeger@de.ibm.com: checkpatch strict fix]
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 18 +++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
index 1296fc10f80c..876fc1f7282a 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
@@ -329,31 +329,31 @@ static void allow_cpu_feat(unsigned long nr)
 
 static inline int plo_test_bit(unsigned char nr)
 {
-	register unsigned long r0 asm("0") = (unsigned long) nr | 0x100;
+	unsigned long function = (unsigned long)nr | 0x100;
 	int cc;
 
 	asm volatile(
+		"	lgr	0,%[function]\n"
 		/* Parameter registers are ignored for "test bit" */
 		"	plo	0,0,0,0(0)\n"
 		"	ipm	%0\n"
 		"	srl	%0,28\n"
 		: "=d" (cc)
-		: "d" (r0)
-		: "cc");
+		: [function] "d" (function)
+		: "cc", "0");
 	return cc == 0;
 }
 
 static __always_inline void __insn32_query(unsigned int opcode, u8 *query)
 {
-	register unsigned long r0 asm("0") = 0;	/* query function */
-	register unsigned long r1 asm("1") = (unsigned long) query;
-
 	asm volatile(
-		/* Parameter regs are ignored */
+		"	lghi	0,0\n"
+		"	lgr	1,%[query]\n"
+		/* Parameter registers are ignored */
 		"	.insn	rrf,%[opc] << 16,2,4,6,0\n"
 		:
-		: "d" (r0), "a" (r1), [opc] "i" (opcode)
-		: "cc", "memory");
+		: [query] "d" ((unsigned long)query), [opc] "i" (opcode)
+		: "cc", "memory", "0", "1");
 }
 
 #define INSN_SORTL 0xb938
-- 
2.30.2
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