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x86-64, asm: If the assembler supports fxsave64, use it

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Kbuild allows for us to probe for the existence of specific constructs
in the assembler, use them to find out if we can use fxsave64 and
permit the compiler to generate better code.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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H. Peter Anvin 2010-10-13 16:00:29 -07:00
parent 7fe977dab3
commit d7acb92fea
2 changed files with 7 additions and 3 deletions
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arch/x86/Makefile
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@ -96,8 +96,12 @@ cfi := $(call as-instr,.cfi_startproc\n.cfi_rel_offset $(sp-y)$(comma)0\n.cfi_en
# is .cfi_signal_frame supported too?
cfi-sigframe := $(call as-instr,.cfi_startproc\n.cfi_signal_frame\n.cfi_endproc,-DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1)
cfi-sections := $(call as-instr,.cfi_sections .debug_frame,-DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1)
KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(cfi) $(cfi-sigframe) $(cfi-sections)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(cfi) $(cfi-sigframe) $(cfi-sections)
# does binutils support specific instructions?
asinstr := $(call as-instr,fxsaveq (%rax),-DCONFIG_AS_FXSAVEQ=1)
KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(cfi) $(cfi-sigframe) $(cfi-sections) $(asinstr)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(cfi) $(cfi-sigframe) $(cfi-sections) $(asinstr)
LDFLAGS := -m elf_$(UTS_MACHINE)

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arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h
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@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ static inline void fpu_fxsave(struct fpu *fpu)
uses any extended registers for addressing, a second REX prefix
will be generated (to the assembler, rex64 followed by semicolon
is a separate instruction), and hence the 64-bitness is lost. */
#if 0
#ifdef CONFIG_AS_FXSAVEQ
/* Using "fxsaveq %0" would be the ideal choice, but is only supported
starting with gas 2.16. */
__asm__ __volatile__("fxsaveq %0"