Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Jan 2018 12:50:16 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 7/7] x86/speculation: Add basic IBPB (Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier) support |
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On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 11:47:35AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > I did already do the explicit clobbers now you reminded me how to do > them, but I elected not to use ASM_NO_INPUT_CLOBBER() because on > balance, losing the MSR_IA32_PRED_CMD / PRED_CMD_IBPB definitions and > having to hard-code the numbers was not so much of a win.
and I'm thinking exactly the opposite: if an alternative can lose a bunch of inputs which don't change, then that's a good thing.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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