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* [PATCH 0/2] fix clobbers list with ZERO_CALL_USED_REGS feature
@ 2022-09-02 21:37 Bill Wendling
  2022-09-02 21:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/paravirt: clean up typos and grammaros Bill Wendling
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 20+ messages in thread
From: Bill Wendling @ 2022-09-02 21:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Juergen Gross, Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware), Alexey Makhalov,
	VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar,
	Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen, x86, H. Peter Anvin, virtualization,
	linux-kernel, Nathan Chancellor, Nick Desaulniers, llvm
  Cc: Bill Wendling

The ZERO_CALL_USED_REGS feature may zero out callee-saved registers. This needs
to be properly modeled by things like code alternatives. Otherwise, it's
possible that a callee-saved register would be expected to remain unchanged
past an ASM statement when in reality it isn't.

Bill Wendling (2):
  x86/paravirt: clean up typos and grammaros
  x86/paravirt: add extra clobbers with ZERO_CALL_USED_REGS enabled

 arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h | 27 ++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

-- 
2.37.2.789.g6183377224-goog


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2022-09-02 21:37 [PATCH 0/2] fix clobbers list with ZERO_CALL_USED_REGS feature Bill Wendling
2022-09-02 21:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/paravirt: clean up typos and grammaros Bill Wendling
2022-09-03  4:28   ` Borislav Petkov
2022-09-03  4:28     ` Borislav Petkov
2022-09-04  2:13     ` Bill Wendling
2022-09-02 21:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86/paravirt: add extra clobbers with ZERO_CALL_USED_REGS enabled Bill Wendling
2022-09-03  7:18   ` Kees Cook
2022-09-03  7:18     ` Kees Cook
2022-09-05  6:02     ` Bill Wendling
2022-09-07  6:00       ` Nick Desaulniers
2022-09-07  6:00         ` Nick Desaulniers via Virtualization
2022-09-07  8:50         ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-09-07  8:50           ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-09-07 23:10           ` Kees Cook
2022-09-07 23:10             ` Kees Cook
2022-09-08 21:16             ` Bill Wendling
2022-09-14 14:40           ` Nathan Chancellor
2022-09-14 15:49             ` Bill Wendling
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2022-09-15  6:59   ` [PATCH v2 1/1] x86/paravirt: write paravirt ident function in assembly Juergen Gross
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