Results in a more predictable (i.e. linear) memory access pattern.
No functional change.
This is part of XSA-254.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
master commit:
f85d105e27735f0e20aa30d77f03774f3ed55ae5
master date: 2018-01-05 19:57:08 +0000
* @compat: R8-R15 don't need reloading
*/
.macro RESTORE_ALL adj=0 compat=0
- LOAD_C_CLOBBERED \compat
.if !\compat
movq UREGS_r15(%rsp),%r15
movq UREGS_r14(%rsp),%r14
.endif
LOAD_ONE_REG(bp, \compat)
LOAD_ONE_REG(bx, \compat)
+ LOAD_C_CLOBBERED \compat
subq $-(UREGS_error_code-UREGS_r15+\adj), %rsp
.endm