Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Jun 2011 09:39:01 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 8/9] x86-64: Emulate legacy vsyscalls |
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* Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> wrote:
> > We could even 'tie down' the actual assembly by moving this all > > to a .S - this way we protect against GCC accidentally generating > > something dangerous in there. I suggested that before. > > I have no problem with that suggestion, except that once the > current series makes it into -tip I intend to move vread_tsc and > vread_hpet to the vDSO. So leaving them alone for now saves work, > and they'll be more maintainable later if they're written in C.
Sure, if they move to the vDSO real soon then moving them to assembly becomes moot.
Thanks,
Ingo
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