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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] treewide: remove current_text_addr
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 21:56:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7f49eeab-a5cc-867f-58fb-abd266f9c2c9@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81141365-8168-799b-f34f-da5f92efaaf9@zytor.com>

On 08/25/18 20:16, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 08/25/18 19:38, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>
>> If it was worthwhile it would make more sense to at least force this
>> into the rodata section with the string, something like the attached
>> file for an example; however, I have a hunch it doesn't matter.
>>
> 
> An even nuttier version which avoids the extra pointer indirection.
> Read it and fear.
> 
> 	-hpa
> 

OK, so one more thing, I guess: it is necessary to suppress the tailcall
optimization for _RET_IP_ to make any sense, but that should be pretty
simple:

static inline void notailcall(void)
{
	asm volatile("");
}

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-26  4:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2018-08-21 20:28 ` [PATCH] treewide: remove current_text_addr Nick Desaulniers
2018-08-25 10:48   ` Helge Deller
2018-08-26  2:38     ` H. Peter Anvin
2018-08-26  3:16       ` H. Peter Anvin
2018-08-26  4:56         ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2018-08-26 19:30           ` H. Peter Anvin
2018-08-26 20:25             ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-27  2:52               ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-08-27  7:33                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-08-27 12:26                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2018-08-27 13:11                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-08-27 13:33                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2018-08-31 16:48                         ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-08-27  7:43               ` Nicholas Piggin
2018-08-26 23:20             ` H. Peter Anvin
2018-08-25 21:02   ` Linus Torvalds

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