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From: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
To: Kanna Scarlet <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>,
	Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>,
	Dave Hansen <[email protected]>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>,
	[email protected], Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>,
	Bill Metzenthen <[email protected]>,
	Brijesh Singh <[email protected]>,
	Joerg Roedel <[email protected]>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <[email protected]>,
	Mark Rutland <[email protected]>,
	Michael Roth <[email protected]>,
	Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>,
	Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>,
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	Ammar Faizi <[email protected]>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: Change mov $0, %reg with xor %reg, %reg
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 17:53:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On Thu, Aug 04, 2022 at 03:26:55PM +0000, Kanna Scarlet wrote:
> Change mov $0, %reg with xor %reg, %reg because xor %reg, %reg is
> smaller so it is good to save space

Bonus points if you find out what other advantage

XOR reg,reg

has when it comes to clearing integer registers.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-04 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-04 15:26 [PATCH 0/1] x86 change mov 0, %reg to xor %reg, %reg Kanna Scarlet
2022-08-04 15:26 ` [PATCH 1/1] x86: Change mov $0, %reg with " Kanna Scarlet
2022-08-04 15:53   ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2022-08-04 18:08     ` Kanna Scarlet
2022-08-05  9:26       ` David Laight
2022-08-05  9:42         ` Joerg Roedel
2022-08-08 16:45           ` Kanna Scarlet
2022-08-08 18:59             ` H. Peter Anvin
2022-08-08 16:38         ` Kanna Scarlet
2022-08-08 18:59         ` H. Peter Anvin
2022-08-09  7:38           ` David Laight
2022-08-05  9:54       ` Borislav Petkov
2022-08-08 16:57         ` Kanna Scarlet

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