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x86/entry/64/compat: Document sysenter_fix_flags's reason for existence

The code under the label can normally be inline, without the
jumping back and forth but the latter is an optimization.

Document that.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.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: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151009170859.GA24266@pd.tnic
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Borislav Petkov 9 년 전
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      arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S

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arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S

@@ -102,6 +102,12 @@ ENTRY(entry_SYSENTER_compat)
 	 * NT was set instead of doing an unconditional popfq.
 	 * This needs to happen before enabling interrupts so that
 	 * we don't get preempted with NT set.
+	 *
+	 * NB.: sysenter_fix_flags is a label with the code under it moved
+	 * out-of-line as an optimization: NT is unlikely to be set in the
+	 * majority of the cases and instead of polluting the I$ unnecessarily,
+	 * we're keeping that code behind a branch which will predict as
+	 * not-taken and therefore its instructions won't be fetched.
 	 */
 	testl	$X86_EFLAGS_NT, EFLAGS(%rsp)
 	jnz	sysenter_fix_flags