linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/20] x86/uaccess: Move copy_user_handle

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Date:   Fri, 8 Mar 2019 12:53:21 -0600
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com,
        julien.thierry@....com, will.deacon@....com, luto@...capital.net,
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        bp@...en8.de, dvlasenk@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        dvyukov@...gle.com, rostedt@...dmis.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/20] x86/uaccess: Move copy_user_handle_tail into asm

On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 12:45:14PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>  /*
> + * Try to copy last bytes and clear the rest if needed.
> + * Since protection fault in copy_from/to_user is not a normal situation,
> + * it is not necessary to optimize tail handling.
> + *
> + * Input:
> + * rdi destination
> + * rsi source
> + * rdx count
> + *
> + * Output:
> + * eax uncopied bytes or 0 if successful.
> + */
> +ALIGN;
> +copy_user_handle_tail:
> +	movl %edx,%ecx
> +1:	rep movsb
> +2:	mov %ecx,%eax
> +	ASM_CLAC
> +	ret
> +
> +	_ASM_EXTABLE_UA(1b, 2b)
> +ENDPROC(copy_user_handle_tail)

This is an unstructured piece of code rather than a callable function,
END would probably be more appropriate.  Or maybe it should just be a
local label (.Lcopy_user_handle_tail) because I don't think the
alignment and ELF symbol size are even needed.

-- 
Josh