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Clear R9 in the non-faulting path of KVM_ASM_SAFE() and fall through to
to a common load of "vector" to effectively load "vector" with '0' to
reduce the code footprint of the asm blob, to reduce the runtime overhead
of the non-faulting path (when "vector" is stored in a register), and so
that additional output constraints that are valid if and only if a fault
occur are loaded even in the non-faulting case.
A future patch will add a 64-bit output for the error code, and if its
output is not explicitly loaded with _something_, the user of the asm
blob can end up technically consuming uninitialized data. Using a
common path to load the output constraints will allow using an existing
scratch register, e.g. r10, to hold the error code in the faulting path,
while also guaranteeing the error code is initialized with deterministic
data in the non-faulting patch (r10 is loaded with the RIP of
to-be-executed instruction).
Consuming the error code when a fault doesn't occur would obviously be a
test bug, but there's no guarantee the compiler will detect uninitialized
consumption. And conversely, it's theoretically possible that the
compiler might throw a false positive on uninitialized data, e.g. if the
compiler can't determine that the non-faulting path won't touch the error
code.
Alternatively, the error code could be explicitly loaded in the
non-faulting path, but loading a 64-bit memory|register output operand
with an explicitl value requires a sign-extended "MOV imm32, r/m64",
which isn't exactly straightforward and has a largish code footprint.
And loading the error code with what is effectively garbage (from a
scratch register) avoids having to choose an arbitrary value for the
non-faulting case.
Opportunistically remove a rogue asterisk in the block comment.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221102184654.282799-8-dmatlack@google.com
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