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KVM: x86: Use VMCALL and VMMCALL mnemonics in kvm_para.h

Message ID 20200623183439.5526-1-ubizjak@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series KVM: x86: Use VMCALL and VMMCALL mnemonics in kvm_para.h | expand

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Uros Bizjak June 23, 2020, 6:34 p.m. UTC
Current minimum required version of binutils is 2.23,
which supports VMCALL and VMMCALL instruction mnemonics.

Replace the byte-wise specification of VMCALL and
VMMCALL with these proper mnemonics.

Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
CC: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Paolo Bonzini June 25, 2020, 12:32 p.m. UTC | #1
On 23/06/20 20:34, Uros Bizjak wrote:
> Current minimum required version of binutils is 2.23,
> which supports VMCALL and VMMCALL instruction mnemonics.
> 
> Replace the byte-wise specification of VMCALL and
> VMMCALL with these proper mnemonics.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
> CC: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h
> index 49d3a9edb06f..01317493807e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h
> @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ static inline bool kvm_check_and_clear_guest_paused(void)
>  #endif /* CONFIG_KVM_GUEST */
>  
>  #define KVM_HYPERCALL \
> -        ALTERNATIVE(".byte 0x0f,0x01,0xc1", ".byte 0x0f,0x01,0xd9", X86_FEATURE_VMMCALL)
> +        ALTERNATIVE("vmcall", "vmmcall", X86_FEATURE_VMMCALL)
>  
>  /* For KVM hypercalls, a three-byte sequence of either the vmcall or the vmmcall
>   * instruction.  The hypervisor may replace it with something else but only the
> 

Queued, thanks.
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diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h
index 49d3a9edb06f..01317493807e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@  static inline bool kvm_check_and_clear_guest_paused(void)
 #endif /* CONFIG_KVM_GUEST */
 
 #define KVM_HYPERCALL \
-        ALTERNATIVE(".byte 0x0f,0x01,0xc1", ".byte 0x0f,0x01,0xd9", X86_FEATURE_VMMCALL)
+        ALTERNATIVE("vmcall", "vmmcall", X86_FEATURE_VMMCALL)
 
 /* For KVM hypercalls, a three-byte sequence of either the vmcall or the vmmcall
  * instruction.  The hypervisor may replace it with something else but only the