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KVM: s390: get rid of register asm usage
authorHeiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Mon, 21 Jun 2021 14:03:56 +0000 (16:03 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 14 Jul 2021 14:53:15 +0000 (16:53 +0200)
commit431dd21739928e1ac027ef30c6825d0394dc2c56
tree66571b57ec0f97fe36b4b6792322ae921fedc796
parent759c055248a303926e3e1fc053116a40afcc4e88
KVM: s390: get rid of register asm usage

[ Upstream commit 4fa3b91bdee1b08348c82660668ca0ca34e271ad ]

Using register asm statements has been proven to be very error prone,
especially when using code instrumentation where gcc may add function
calls, which clobbers register contents in an unexpected way.

Therefore get rid of register asm statements in kvm code, even though
there is currently nothing wrong with them. This way we know for sure
that this bug class won't be introduced here.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210621140356.1210771-1-hca@linux.ibm.com
[borntraeger@de.ibm.com: checkpatch strict fix]
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c