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From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Date:   Thu, 29 Oct 2020 07:41:55 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/entry/64: Use TEST %reg,%reg instead of CMP $0,%reg
To:     Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Cc:     X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
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On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 7:29 AM Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Use TEST %reg,%reg which sets the zero flag in the same way
> as CMP $0,%reg, but the encoding uses one byte less.

This will make a Linux distro fit on an embedded device that
previously had four bytes too little flash :)

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