x86/cpufeature: Remove __pure attribute to _static_cpu_has()

__pure is used to make gcc do Common Subexpression Elimination (CSE)
and thus save subsequent invocations of a function which does a complex
computation (without side effects). As a simple example:

  bool a = _static_cpu_has(x);
  bool b = _static_cpu_has(x);

gets turned into

  bool a = _static_cpu_has(x);
  bool b = a;

However, gcc doesn't do CSE with asm()s when those get inlined - like it
is done with _static_cpu_has() - because, for example, the t_yes/t_no
labels are different for each inlined function body and thus cannot be
detected as equivalent anymore for the CSE heuristic to hit.

However, this all is beside the point because best it should be avoided
to have more than one call to _static_cpu_has(X) in the same function
due to the fact that each such call is an alternatives patch site and it
is simply pointless.

Therefore, drop the __pure attribute as it is not doing anything.

Reported-by: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190307151036.GD26566@zn.tnic

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
index ce95b8cbd2296b1e33de2e0f520a00f3981e3f23..2fb791a1b479bab6046009ebc1f98dc2308fe6e3 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ extern void clear_cpu_cap(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c, unsigned int bit);
  * These will statically patch the target code for additional
  * performance.
  */
-static __always_inline __pure bool _static_cpu_has(u16 bit)
+static __always_inline bool _static_cpu_has(u16 bit)
 {
        asm_volatile_goto("1: jmp 6f\n"
                 "2:\n"