Commit 53ed3d91 authored by Uros Bizjak's avatar Uros Bizjak Committed by Borislav Petkov (AMD)
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x86/segment: Use MOVL when reading segment registers



Use MOVL when reading segment registers to avoid 0x66 operand-size override
insn prefix. The segment value is always 16-bit and gets zero-extended to the
full 32-bit size.

Example:

  4e4:       66 8c c0                mov    %es,%ax
  4e7:       66 89 83 80 0b 00 00    mov    %ax,0xb80(%rbx)

  4e4:       8c c0                   mov    %es,%eax
  4e6:       66 89 83 80 0b 00 00    mov    %ax,0xb80(%rbx)

Also, use the %k0 modifier which generates the SImode (signed integer)
register name for the target register.

  [ bp: Extend and clarify commit message. ]

Signed-off-by: default avatarUros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Tested-by: default avatarMichael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260105090422.6243-1-ubizjak@gmail.com
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@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ static inline void __loadsegment_fs(unsigned short value)
 * Save a segment register away:
 */
#define savesegment(seg, value)				\
	asm("mov %%" #seg ",%0":"=r" (value) : : "memory")
	asm("movl %%" #seg ",%k0" : "=r" (value) : : "memory")

#endif /* !__ASSEMBLER__ */
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */