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KVM: VMX: remove unneeded 'asm volatile ("")' from vmcs_write64

Message ID 20190602191156.1101-1-ubizjak@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series KVM: VMX: remove unneeded 'asm volatile ("")' from vmcs_write64 | expand

Commit Message

Uros Bizjak June 2, 2019, 7:11 p.m. UTC
__vmcs_writel uses volatile asm, so there is no need to insert another
one between the first and the second call to __vmcs_writel in order
to prevent unwanted code moves for 32bit targets.

Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
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 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/ops.h | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

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Paolo Bonzini June 4, 2019, 5:22 p.m. UTC | #1
On 02/06/19 21:11, Uros Bizjak wrote:
> __vmcs_writel uses volatile asm, so there is no need to insert another
> one between the first and the second call to __vmcs_writel in order
> to prevent unwanted code moves for 32bit targets.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/ops.h | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/ops.h b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/ops.h
> index b8e50f76fefc..2200fb698dd0 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/ops.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/ops.h
> @@ -146,7 +146,6 @@ static __always_inline void vmcs_write64(unsigned long field, u64 value)
>  
>  	__vmcs_writel(field, value);
>  #ifndef CONFIG_X86_64
> -	asm volatile ("");
>  	__vmcs_writel(field+1, value >> 32);
>  #endif
>  }
> 

Queued, thanks.

Paolo
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/ops.h b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/ops.h
index b8e50f76fefc..2200fb698dd0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/ops.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/ops.h
@@ -146,7 +146,6 @@  static __always_inline void vmcs_write64(unsigned long field, u64 value)
 
 	__vmcs_writel(field, value);
 #ifndef CONFIG_X86_64
-	asm volatile ("");
 	__vmcs_writel(field+1, value >> 32);
 #endif
 }