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Message-ID: <tip-1acdbf7ea8a80706561013346d281d282a3c00f9@git.kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 13 Feb 2018 08:59:31 -0800
From:   tip-bot for Alexey Dobriyan <tipbot@...or.com>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     mingo@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org, adobriyan@...il.com,
        hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
        bp@...e.de, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: [tip:x86/asm] x86/asm: Clobber flags in clear_page()

Commit-ID:  1acdbf7ea8a80706561013346d281d282a3c00f9
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/1acdbf7ea8a80706561013346d281d282a3c00f9
Author:     Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
AuthorDate: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 21:50:48 +0300
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 17:36:49 +0100

x86/asm: Clobber flags in clear_page()

All clear_page() implementations use XOR which resets flags.

Judging by allyesconfig disassembly no code is affected.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180113185048.GA23111@avx2
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/page_64.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64.h
index 4baa6bc..f8a85c6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64.h
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ static inline void clear_page(void *page)
 			   clear_page_erms, X86_FEATURE_ERMS,
 			   "=D" (page),
 			   "0" (page)
-			   : "memory", "rax", "rcx");
+			   : "cc", "memory", "rax", "rcx");
 }
 
 void copy_page(void *to, void *from);