From 3578baaed4613a9fc09bab9f79f6ce2ac682e8a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:47:31 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] x86, mm: Redesign get_user with a __builtin_choose_expr hack MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Instead of using a bitfield, use an odd little trick using typeof, __builtin_choose_expr, and sizeof. __builtin_choose_expr is explicitly defined to not convert its type (its argument is required to be a constant expression) so this should be well-defined. The code is still not 100% preturbation-free versus the baseline before 64-bit get_user(), but the differences seem to be very small, mostly related to padding and to gcc deciding when to spill registers. Cc: Jamie Lokier Cc: Ville Syrjälä Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Russell King Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: H. J. Lu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/511A8922.6050908@zytor.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h | 57 +++++++++------------------------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h index a8d12653f30..d710a2555fd 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h @@ -125,13 +125,12 @@ extern int __get_user_4(void); extern int __get_user_8(void); extern int __get_user_bad(void); -#define __get_user_x(size, ret, x, ptr) \ - asm volatile("call __get_user_" #size \ - : "=a" (ret), "=d" (x) \ - : "0" (ptr)) \ - -/* Careful: we have to cast the result to the type of the pointer - * for sign reasons */ +/* + * This is a type: either unsigned long, if the argument fits into + * that type, or otherwise unsigned long long. + */ +#define __inttype(x) \ +__typeof__(__builtin_choose_expr(sizeof(x) > sizeof(0UL), 0ULL, 0UL)) /** * get_user: - Get a simple variable from user space. @@ -149,48 +148,20 @@ extern int __get_user_bad(void); * * Returns zero on success, or -EFAULT on error. * On error, the variable @x is set to zero. + * + * Careful: we have to cast the result to the type of the pointer + * for sign reasons. */ -#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 -#define __get_user_8(ret, x, ptr) \ -do { \ - register unsigned long long __xx asm("%edx"); \ - asm volatile("call __get_user_8" \ - : "=a" (ret), "=r" (__xx) \ - : "0" (ptr)); \ - (x) = __xx; \ -} while (0) - -#else -#define __get_user_8(__ret_gu, __val_gu, ptr) \ - __get_user_x(8, __ret_gu, __val_gu, ptr) -#endif - #define get_user(x, ptr) \ ({ \ int __ret_gu; \ - struct { \ - unsigned long long __val_n : 8*sizeof(*(ptr)); \ - } __val_gu; \ + register __inttype(*(ptr)) __val_gu asm("%edx"); \ __chk_user_ptr(ptr); \ might_fault(); \ - switch (sizeof(*(ptr))) { \ - case 1: \ - __get_user_x(1, __ret_gu, __val_gu.__val_n, ptr); \ - break; \ - case 2: \ - __get_user_x(2, __ret_gu, __val_gu.__val_n, ptr); \ - break; \ - case 4: \ - __get_user_x(4, __ret_gu, __val_gu.__val_n, ptr); \ - break; \ - case 8: \ - __get_user_8(__ret_gu, __val_gu.__val_n, ptr); \ - break; \ - default: \ - __get_user_x(X, __ret_gu, __val_gu.__val_n, ptr); \ - break; \ - } \ - (x) = (__typeof__(*(ptr)))__val_gu.__val_n; \ + asm volatile("call __get_user_%P3" \ + : "=a" (__ret_gu), "=r" (__val_gu) \ + : "0" (ptr), "i" (sizeof(*(ptr)))); \ + (x) = (__typeof__(*(ptr))) __val_gu; \ __ret_gu; \ }) -- 2.20.1