* [PATCH 4/5] Reduce assembly code size of exception entry points
@ 2024-02-05 10:48 Frediano Ziglio
2024-02-06 10:11 ` Jan Beulich
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Frediano Ziglio @ 2024-02-05 10:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jan Beulich, Andrew Cooper, Roger Pau Monné, Wei Liu
Cc: xen-devel, Frediano Ziglio
We just pushed a 8-bytes zero and exception constants are
small so we can just write a single byte saving 3 bytes for
instruction.
With ENDBR64 this reduces the size of the entry point from 32 to 16
bytes (due to alignment).
Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio <frediano.ziglio@cloud.com>
---
xen/arch/x86/x86_64/entry.S | 16 ++++++++--------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/x86_64/entry.S b/xen/arch/x86/x86_64/entry.S
index ecdd6e5b47..b6a157d96a 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/x86_64/entry.S
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/x86_64/entry.S
@@ -898,28 +898,28 @@ END(handle_exception)
FUNC(entry_DE)
ENDBR64
pushq $0
- movl $X86_EXC_DE, 4(%rsp)
+ movb $X86_EXC_DE, 4(%rsp)
jmp handle_exception
END(entry_DE)
FUNC(entry_MF)
ENDBR64
pushq $0
- movl $X86_EXC_MF, 4(%rsp)
+ movb $X86_EXC_MF, 4(%rsp)
jmp handle_exception
END(entry_MF)
FUNC(entry_XM)
ENDBR64
pushq $0
- movl $X86_EXC_XM, 4(%rsp)
+ movb $X86_EXC_XM, 4(%rsp)
jmp handle_exception
END(entry_XM)
FUNC(entry_NM)
ENDBR64
pushq $0
- movl $X86_EXC_NM, 4(%rsp)
+ movb $X86_EXC_NM, 4(%rsp)
jmp handle_exception
END(entry_NM)
@@ -933,28 +933,28 @@ END(entry_DB)
FUNC(entry_BP)
ENDBR64
pushq $0
- movl $X86_EXC_BP, 4(%rsp)
+ movb $X86_EXC_BP, 4(%rsp)
jmp handle_exception
END(entry_BP)
FUNC(entry_OF)
ENDBR64
pushq $0
- movl $X86_EXC_OF, 4(%rsp)
+ movb $X86_EXC_OF, 4(%rsp)
jmp handle_exception
END(entry_OF)
FUNC(entry_BR)
ENDBR64
pushq $0
- movl $X86_EXC_BR, 4(%rsp)
+ movb $X86_EXC_BR, 4(%rsp)
jmp handle_exception
END(entry_BR)
FUNC(entry_UD)
ENDBR64
pushq $0
- movl $X86_EXC_UD, 4(%rsp)
+ movb $X86_EXC_UD, 4(%rsp)
jmp handle_exception
END(entry_UD)
--
2.34.1
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* Re: [PATCH 4/5] Reduce assembly code size of exception entry points
2024-02-05 10:48 [PATCH 4/5] Reduce assembly code size of exception entry points Frediano Ziglio
@ 2024-02-06 10:11 ` Jan Beulich
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jan Beulich @ 2024-02-06 10:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Frediano Ziglio; +Cc: xen-devel, Andrew Cooper, Roger Pau Monné, Wei Liu
On 05.02.2024 11:48, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> We just pushed a 8-bytes zero and exception constants are
> small so we can just write a single byte saving 3 bytes for
> instruction.
> With ENDBR64 this reduces the size of the entry point from 32 to 16
> bytes (due to alignment).
Oh, good - when recently touching these entry points, I was thinking
of doing exactly this. Just didn't get to it, yet. However
- since using different size stores can raise performance concerns,
I'd like to suggest that you mention the fact that we actually
already have cases of this, in autogen_stubs,
- I'd further like to ask that this conversion then be done consistently
everywhere, perhaps even including the storing of TRAP_syscall. I find
it particularly puzzling that you ...
> --- a/xen/arch/x86/x86_64/entry.S
> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/x86_64/entry.S
> @@ -898,28 +898,28 @@ END(handle_exception)
> FUNC(entry_DE)
> ENDBR64
> pushq $0
> - movl $X86_EXC_DE, 4(%rsp)
> + movb $X86_EXC_DE, 4(%rsp)
> jmp handle_exception
> END(entry_DE)
>
> FUNC(entry_MF)
> ENDBR64
> pushq $0
> - movl $X86_EXC_MF, 4(%rsp)
> + movb $X86_EXC_MF, 4(%rsp)
> jmp handle_exception
> END(entry_MF)
>
> FUNC(entry_XM)
> ENDBR64
> pushq $0
> - movl $X86_EXC_XM, 4(%rsp)
> + movb $X86_EXC_XM, 4(%rsp)
> jmp handle_exception
> END(entry_XM)
>
> FUNC(entry_NM)
> ENDBR64
> pushq $0
> - movl $X86_EXC_NM, 4(%rsp)
> + movb $X86_EXC_NM, 4(%rsp)
> jmp handle_exception
> END(entry_NM)
>
> @@ -933,28 +933,28 @@ END(entry_DB)
... skip entry_DB here. And even ...
> FUNC(entry_BP)
> ENDBR64
> pushq $0
> - movl $X86_EXC_BP, 4(%rsp)
> + movb $X86_EXC_BP, 4(%rsp)
> jmp handle_exception
> END(entry_BP)
>
> FUNC(entry_OF)
> ENDBR64
> pushq $0
> - movl $X86_EXC_OF, 4(%rsp)
> + movb $X86_EXC_OF, 4(%rsp)
> jmp handle_exception
> END(entry_OF)
>
> FUNC(entry_BR)
> ENDBR64
> pushq $0
> - movl $X86_EXC_BR, 4(%rsp)
> + movb $X86_EXC_BR, 4(%rsp)
> jmp handle_exception
> END(entry_BR)
>
> FUNC(entry_UD)
> ENDBR64
> pushq $0
> - movl $X86_EXC_UD, 4(%rsp)
> + movb $X86_EXC_UD, 4(%rsp)
> jmp handle_exception
> END(entry_UD)
... entry points below here, where an error code is pushed, will
have zero in the respective field, so these can be converted too.
And entry_NMI isn't any different either. Whereas entry_MC even
exactly matches the pattern you have been following, afaict.
Jan
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