Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Oct 2015 16:14:49 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 09/36] x86/asm: Re-add manual CFI infrastructure |
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* Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 11:21:41AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > > OK, I'll strip out the push, movq, etc stuff for v3. I'll leave all of the > > CFI_XYZ macros, even the unused one, because that's only a couple of lines of > > code and they all have very simple and obvious meanings (or as simple as the > > underlying directives, anyway). > > If they're going to be used by the vDSO only, maybe they all should go into a > header which is private to the vDSO only so that people don't get any ideas and > the gunk starts spreading again...
Yeah. So for the vDSO code itself it's an obvious step forward: replacing black magic hexa encodings with symbolic directives.
Thanks,
Ingo
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