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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h2
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/insn-eval.h36
2 files changed, 37 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
index db70832232d4..3e78bb76153c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
#define rmb() asm volatile(ALTERNATIVE("lock addl $0,-4(%%esp)", "lfence", \
X86_FEATURE_XMM2) ::: "memory", "cc")
#define wmb() asm volatile(ALTERNATIVE("lock addl $0,-4(%%esp)", "sfence", \
- X86_FEATURE_XMM2) ::: "memory", "cc")
+ X86_FEATURE_XMM) ::: "memory", "cc")
#else
#define __mb() asm volatile("mfence":::"memory")
#define __rmb() asm volatile("lfence":::"memory")
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/insn-eval.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/insn-eval.h
index 54368a43abf6..b1e6c47113aa 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/insn-eval.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/insn-eval.h
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
#include <linux/compiler.h>
#include <linux/bug.h>
#include <linux/err.h>
+#include <asm/insn.h>
#include <asm/ptrace.h>
#define INSN_CODE_SEG_ADDR_SZ(params) ((params >> 4) & 0xf)
@@ -44,4 +45,39 @@ enum insn_mmio_type {
enum insn_mmio_type insn_decode_mmio(struct insn *insn, int *bytes);
+/*
+ * Write @val into *@reg following the x86 rules for writes to
+ * general-purpose registers (Intel SDM Vol. 1, "General-Purpose
+ * Registers in 64-Bit Mode"): an 8- or 16-bit write leaves the rest of
+ * the register untouched, a 32-bit write zero-extends the result into
+ * the upper 32 bits, and a 64-bit write replaces the whole register.
+ *
+ * @bytes is the width of the write, not a property of the instruction:
+ * an instruction that, say, sign-extends a 32-bit immediate into a
+ * 64-bit register does a 64-bit write here.
+ *
+ * @reg need not be 8-byte aligned: KVM's instruction emulator offsets
+ * the pointer by one byte to address the high-byte registers (AH, CH,
+ * DH, BH). Use narrow stores for the sub-word cases so the access
+ * width matches @bytes and the adjacent bytes are left alone.
+ */
+static inline void insn_assign_reg(unsigned long *reg, u64 val, int bytes)
+{
+ switch (bytes) {
+ case 1:
+ *(u8 *)reg = (u8)val;
+ break;
+ case 2:
+ *(u16 *)reg = (u16)val;
+ break;
+ case 4:
+ /* A 32-bit write zero-extends into the upper 32 bits. */
+ *reg = (u32)val;
+ break;
+ case 8:
+ *reg = val;
+ break;
+ }
+}
+
#endif /* _ASM_X86_INSN_EVAL_H */