[RFC PATCH 3/7] x86/kexec: Only swap pages for preserve_context mode
David Woodhouse
dwmw2 at infradead.org
Sat Nov 2 22:35:28 PDT 2024
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw at amazon.co.uk>
There's no need to swap pages (which involves three memcopies for each
page) in the plain kexec case. Just do a single copy from source to
destination page.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw at amazon.co.uk>
---
arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S
index e607c0b7d70b..9b6ed08e00ea 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S
@@ -302,6 +302,9 @@ SYM_CODE_START_LOCAL_NOALIGN(swap_pages)
movq %rdi, %rdx /* Save destination page to %rdx */
movq %rsi, %rax /* Save source page to %rax */
+ testq %r11, %r11 /* Only actually swap for preserve_context */
+ jnz .Lnoswap
+
/* copy source page to swap page */
movq %r10, %rdi
movl $512, %ecx
@@ -316,6 +319,7 @@ SYM_CODE_START_LOCAL_NOALIGN(swap_pages)
/* copy swap page to destination page */
movq %rdx, %rdi
movq %r10, %rsi
+.Lnoswap:
movl $512, %ecx
rep ; movsq
--
2.44.0
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