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Alexey Dobriyan
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Get "current_pt_regs" pointer right before usage.
Space savings on x86_64:
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-180 (-180)
Function old new delta
load_elf_binary 5806 5626 -180 !!!
Looks like the compiler doesn't know that "current_pt_regs" is stable
pointer (because it doesn't know ->stack isn't) even though it knows
that "current" is stable pointer. So it saves it in the very beginning
and then tries to carry it through a lot of code.
Here is what happens here:
load_elf_binary()
...
mov rax,QWORD PTR gs:0x14c00
mov r13,QWORD PTR [rax+0x18] r13 = current->stack
call kmem_cache_alloc # first kmalloc
[980 bytes later!]
# let's spill that sucker because we need a register
# for "load_bias" calculations at
#
# if (interpreter) {
# load_bias = ELF_ET_DYN_BASE;
# if (current->flags & PF_RANDOMIZE)
# load_bias += arch_mmap_rnd();
# elf_flags |= elf_fixed;
# }
mov QWORD PTR [rsp+0x68],r13
If this is not _the_ root cause it is still eeeeh.
After the patch things become much simpler:
mov rax, QWORD PTR gs:0x14c00 # current
mov rdx, QWORD PTR [rax+0x18] # current->stack
movq [rdx+0x3fb8], 0 # fill pt_regs
...
call finalize_exec
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190419200343.GA19788@avx2
Signed-off-by: 
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Tested-by: 
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: 
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