Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Jul 2013 11:42:34 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/asm: avoid mnemonics without type suffix |
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On 07/14/2013 02:14 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > > I think best would be to just find some way to implement LOCK prefix > patching using atomic compiler intrinsics and then switch to those >
That will take a long time to make happen now, and then when we change things we have to wait for gcc to catch up. At some point this always degenerates into the "do we need a kernel-specific compiler" morass.
-hpa
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