Linux Virtualization - Jul 2018 - Patch "x86/asm: Add _ASM_ARG* constants for argument registers to <asm/asm.h>" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    x86/asm: Add _ASM_ARG* constants for argument registers to <asm/asm.h>

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
   
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     x86-asm-add-_asm_arg-constants-for-argument-registers-to-asm-asm.h.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable at vger.kernel.org> know about it.

>From 0e2e160033283e20f688d8bad5b89460cc5bfcc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at linux.intel.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 09:23:23 -0700
Subject: x86/asm: Add _ASM_ARG* constants for argument registers to
<asm/asm.h>

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at linux.intel.com>

commit 0e2e160033283e20f688d8bad5b89460cc5bfcc4 upstream.

i386 and x86-64 uses different registers for arguments; make them
available so we don't have to #ifdef in the actual code.

Native size and specified size (q, l, w, b) versions are provided.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers at google.com>
Reviewed-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek at gmail.com>
Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross at suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
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Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180621162324.36656-3-ndesaulniers at google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h |   59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 59 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h
@@ -45,6 +45,65 @@
 #define _ASM_SI		__ASM_REG(si)
 #define _ASM_DI		__ASM_REG(di)
 
+#ifndef __x86_64__
+/* 32 bit */
+
+#define _ASM_ARG1	_ASM_AX
+#define _ASM_ARG2	_ASM_DX
+#define _ASM_ARG3	_ASM_CX
+
+#define _ASM_ARG1L	eax
+#define _ASM_ARG2L	edx
+#define _ASM_ARG3L	ecx
+
+#define _ASM_ARG1W	ax
+#define _ASM_ARG2W	dx
+#define _ASM_ARG3W	cx
+
+#define _ASM_ARG1B	al
+#define _ASM_ARG2B	dl
+#define _ASM_ARG3B	cl
+
+#else
+/* 64 bit */
+
+#define _ASM_ARG1	_ASM_DI
+#define _ASM_ARG2	_ASM_SI
+#define _ASM_ARG3	_ASM_DX
+#define _ASM_ARG4	_ASM_CX
+#define _ASM_ARG5	r8
+#define _ASM_ARG6	r9
+
+#define _ASM_ARG1Q	rdi
+#define _ASM_ARG2Q	rsi
+#define _ASM_ARG3Q	rdx
+#define _ASM_ARG4Q	rcx
+#define _ASM_ARG5Q	r8
+#define _ASM_ARG6Q	r9
+
+#define _ASM_ARG1L	edi
+#define _ASM_ARG2L	esi
+#define _ASM_ARG3L	edx
+#define _ASM_ARG4L	ecx
+#define _ASM_ARG5L	r8d
+#define _ASM_ARG6L	r9d
+
+#define _ASM_ARG1W	di
+#define _ASM_ARG2W	si
+#define _ASM_ARG3W	dx
+#define _ASM_ARG4W	cx
+#define _ASM_ARG5W	r8w
+#define _ASM_ARG6W	r9w
+
+#define _ASM_ARG1B	dil
+#define _ASM_ARG2B	sil
+#define _ASM_ARG3B	dl
+#define _ASM_ARG4B	cl
+#define _ASM_ARG5B	r8b
+#define _ASM_ARG6B	r9b
+
+#endif
+
 /*
  * Macros to generate condition code outputs from inline assembly,
  * The output operand must be type "bool".


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hpa at linux.intel.com are

queue-4.9/x86-asm-add-_asm_arg-constants-for-argument-registers-to-asm-asm.h.patch