From 5a33fcb8d991209bac0a266ab499e4b53d116cdd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: George Spelvin Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 18:44:13 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] x86/asm/tsc: Save an instruction in DECLARE_ARGS users Before, the code to do RDTSC looked like: rdtsc shl $0x20, %rdx mov %eax, %eax or %rdx, %rax The "mov %eax, %eax" is required to clear the high 32 bits of RAX. By declaring low and high as 64-bit variables, the code is simplified to: rdtsc shl $0x20,%rdx or %rdx,%rax Yes, it's a 2-byte instruction that's not on a critical path, but there are principles to be upheld. Every user of EAX_EDX_RET has been checked. I tried to check users of EAX_EDX_ARGS, but there weren't any, so I deleted it to be safe. ( There's no benefit to making "high" 64 bits, but it was the simplest way to proceed. ) Signed-off-by: George Spelvin Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150618075906.4615.qmail@ns.horizon.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-format-patch failed