Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 May 2011 12:50:36 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 10/10] x86-64: Document some of entry_64.S |
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* Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> wrote:
> (And whose idea was it to have pushing the error code be optional?)
I think it must have been some genius trying to save 0.1 cycles while spending a thousand transistors on it in the critical path and introducing a dozen crashes and security holes into various kernels ;-)
Thanks,
Ingo
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