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Alexey Dobriyan 249b08e4e5 elf: init pt_regs pointer later
Get "current_pt_regs" pointer right before usage.

Space savings on x86_64:

	add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-180 (-180)
	Function                           old     new   delta
	load_elf_binary                   5806    5626    -180 !!!

Looks like the compiler doesn't know that "current_pt_regs" is stable
pointer (because it doesn't know ->stack isn't) even though it knows
that "current" is stable pointer.  So it saves it in the very beginning
and then tries to carry it through a lot of code.

Here is what happens here:

load_elf_binary()
		...
	mov	rax,QWORD PTR gs:0x14c00
	mov	r13,QWORD PTR [rax+0x18]	r13 = current->stack
	call	kmem_cache_alloc		# first kmalloc

		[980 bytes later!]

	# let's spill that sucker because we need a register
	# for "load_bias" calculations at
	#
	#	if (interpreter) {
	#		load_bias = ELF_ET_DYN_BASE;
	#		if (current->flags & PF_RANDOMIZE)
	#			load_bias += arch_mmap_rnd();
	#		elf_flags |= elf_fixed;
	#	}
	mov	QWORD PTR [rsp+0x68],r13

If this is not _the_ root cause it is still eeeeh.

After the patch things become much simpler:

	mov	rax, QWORD PTR gs:0x14c00	# current
	mov	rdx, QWORD PTR [rax+0x18]	# current->stack
	movq	[rdx+0x3fb8], 0			# fill pt_regs
		...
	call finalize_exec

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190419200343.GA19788@avx2
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.