x86/lib/memmove_64.S: Convert memmove() to ALTERNATIVE macro
authorBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Wed, 4 Feb 2015 08:11:17 +0000 (09:11 +0100)
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Mon, 23 Feb 2015 12:54:14 +0000 (13:54 +0100)
Make it execute the ERMS version if support is present and we're in the
forward memmove() part and remove the unfolded alternatives section
definition.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
arch/x86/lib/memmove_64.S

index bbfa6b269eceb3d549b679b13cefb0fcede6219f..0f8a0d0331b91715238f01e8f54ce74525fb0cc4 100644 (file)
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
  * This assembly file is re-written from memmove_64.c file.
  *     - Copyright 2011 Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
  */
-#define _STRING_C
 #include <linux/linkage.h>
 #include <asm/dwarf2.h>
 #include <asm/cpufeature.h>
@@ -44,6 +43,8 @@ ENTRY(__memmove)
        jg 2f
 
 .Lmemmove_begin_forward:
+       ALTERNATIVE "", "movq %rdx, %rcx; rep movsb; retq", X86_FEATURE_ERMS
+
        /*
         * movsq instruction have many startup latency
         * so we handle small size by general register.
@@ -207,21 +208,5 @@ ENTRY(__memmove)
 13:
        retq
        CFI_ENDPROC
-
-       .section .altinstr_replacement,"ax"
-.Lmemmove_begin_forward_efs:
-       /* Forward moving data. */
-       movq %rdx, %rcx
-       rep movsb
-       retq
-.Lmemmove_end_forward_efs:
-       .previous
-
-       .section .altinstructions,"a"
-       altinstruction_entry .Lmemmove_begin_forward,           \
-               .Lmemmove_begin_forward_efs,X86_FEATURE_ERMS,   \
-               .Lmemmove_end_forward-.Lmemmove_begin_forward,  \
-               .Lmemmove_end_forward_efs-.Lmemmove_begin_forward_efs,0
-       .previous
 ENDPROC(__memmove)
 ENDPROC(memmove)