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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:46:41 +0300
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: branchless clear_page()
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:06 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 11:52:29PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>> Apply alternatives at the call site instead of function body.
>> Save branch per clean page.
>
> Any size increase to an allyesconfig vmlinux and increase to
> alternatives application time?
>
> Booting with "debug-alternative" should help.

x86_64 allyesconfig kernel lists whole 56 calls to clear_page().
My usual kernel lists 8.

There are tons copy_from_user/copy_to_user entries and POPCNT
and CLAC/STAC, so I think those several dozens clear pages don't matter.