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authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>2017-09-07 04:41:21 +0200
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2017-10-07 06:10:30 +0200
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parentcrypto:ccp - invoke the DMA callback in a standard way (diff)
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crypto: crc32-pclmul - remove useless relative addressing
In 32-bit mode, the x86 architecture can hold full 32-bit pointers. Therefore, the code that copies the current address to the %ecx register and uses %ecx-relative addressing is useless, we could just use absolute addressing. The processors have a stack of return addresses for branch prediction. If we use a call instruction and pop the return address, it desynchronizes the return stack and causes branch prediction misses. This patch also moves the data to the .rodata section. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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