linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH for 5.2 04/10] rseq/selftests: s390: use jg instruction for jumps outside of the asm

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Message-Id: <20190424152502.14246-5-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Date:   Wed, 24 Apr 2019 11:24:56 -0400
From:   Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
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        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
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        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
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Subject: [RFC PATCH for 5.2 04/10] rseq/selftests: s390: use jg instruction for jumps outside of the asm

The branch target range of the "j" instruction is 64K, which is not
enough for the general case.

Suggested-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@...gle.com>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
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CC: Dave Watson <davejwatson@...com>
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CC: Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>
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CC: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC: Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>
CC: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>
CC: Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
CC: Ben Maurer <bmaurer@...com>
CC: linux-api@...r.kernel.org
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---
 tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-s390.h | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-s390.h b/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-s390.h
index fbb97815d71c..7c4f3a70b6c7 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-s390.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-s390.h
@@ -117,14 +117,14 @@ do {									\
 		".long " __rseq_str(RSEQ_SIG) "\n\t"			\
 		__rseq_str(label) ":\n\t"				\
 		teardown						\
-		"j %l[" __rseq_str(abort_label) "]\n\t"			\
+		"jg %l[" __rseq_str(abort_label) "]\n\t"		\
 		".popsection\n\t"
 
 #define RSEQ_ASM_DEFINE_CMPFAIL(label, teardown, cmpfail_label)		\
 		".pushsection __rseq_failure, \"ax\"\n\t"		\
 		__rseq_str(label) ":\n\t"				\
 		teardown						\
-		"j %l[" __rseq_str(cmpfail_label) "]\n\t"		\
+		"jg %l[" __rseq_str(cmpfail_label) "]\n\t"		\
 		".popsection\n\t"
 
 static inline __attribute__((always_inline))
-- 
2.11.0