x86/uaccess/64: Make the __copy_user_nocache() assembly code more readable
authorToshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 21:24:16 +0000 (14:24 -0700)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Fri, 1 Apr 2016 00:54:33 +0000 (01:54 +0100)
commit8ff1d97cc2acc153f27e0fa6b94ec8e251f40049
treea21642bea9852402b65ad5df06f135ffb6602247
parent398a638ef421a1fdf8a67ceeecd7f91134f58c1d
x86/uaccess/64: Make the __copy_user_nocache() assembly code more readable

commit ee9737c924706aaa72c2ead93e3ad5644681dc1c upstream.

Add comments to __copy_user_nocache() to clarify its procedures
and alignment requirements.

Also change numeric branch target labels to named local labels.

No code changed:

 arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.o:

    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
    1239       0       0    1239     4d7 copy_user_64.o.before
    1239       0       0    1239     4d7 copy_user_64.o.after

 md5:
    58bed94c2db98c1ca9a2d46d0680aaae  copy_user_64.o.before.asm
    58bed94c2db98c1ca9a2d46d0680aaae  copy_user_64.o.after.asm

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: brian.boylston@hpe.com
Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Cc: micah.parrish@hpe.com
Cc: ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com
Cc: vishal.l.verma@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455225857-12039-2-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hpe.com
[ Small readability edits and added object file comparison. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: aadjust filename, context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
arch/x86/lib/copy_user_nocache_64.S