Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Mar 2019 13:00:09 -0500 | From | Josh Poimboeuf <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 20/20] objtool: Add Direction Flag validation |
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On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 02:13:31PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 03:56:02PM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 10:33:43PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 03:16:03PM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > > > > > Can you elaborate on why (in the patch description)? Did this actually > > > > find any occurrences? > > > > > > Nope, didn't find anything. Also, all DF users are in asm so I didn't > > > really expect any. Having it escape would probably result in fairly > > > instant wreckage though. > > > > > > DF=1 results in things like rep mov going _backwards_. > > > > Ok, I wonder if we really need to add this then. > > Well, Linus asked for it, and it was a fairly trivial add-on :-)
If it doesn't matter much either way, I'd rather err on the side of less code. Your call though.
-- Josh
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