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From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
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        Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] x86/vdso: Remove "memory" clobbers in the vDSO syscall fallbacks
Date:   Thu,  4 Oct 2018 14:44:43 -0700
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When a vDSO clock function falls back to the syscall, no special
barriers or ordering is needed, and the syscall fallbacks don't
clobber any memory that is not explicitly listed in the asm
constraints.  Remove the "memory" clobber.

This causes minor changes to the generated code, but otherwise has
no obvious performance impact.  I think it's nice to have, though,
since it may help the optimizer in the future.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
---
 arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
index b7ccbff26a3f..18c8a78d1ec9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ notrace static long vdso_fallback_gettime(long clock, struct timespec *ts)
 	long ret;
 	asm ("syscall" : "=a" (ret), "=m" (*ts) :
 	     "0" (__NR_clock_gettime), "D" (clock), "S" (ts) :
-	     "memory", "rcx", "r11");
+	     "rcx", "r11");
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ notrace static long vdso_fallback_gettime(long clock, struct timespec *ts)
 		"mov %%edx, %%ebx \n"
 		: "=a" (ret), "=m" (*ts)
 		: "0" (__NR_clock_gettime), [clock] "g" (clock), "c" (ts)
-		: "memory", "edx");
+		: "edx");
 	return ret;
 }
 
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