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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "Jakub Jelinek" <jakub@redhat.com>,
	jgross@suse.com, "Michael Matz" <matz@suse.de>,
	"Kees Cook" <keescook@chromium.org>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"Martin Liška" <mliska@suse.cz>,
	x86@kernel.org, "Nick Desaulniers" <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Sergei Trofimovich" <slyfox@gentoo.org>,
	clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>,
	"Arvind Sankar" <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"Paul Mackerras" <paulus@samba.org>,
	"Andy Lutomirski" <luto@kernel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"Frédéric Pierret (fepitre)" <frederic.pierret@qubes-os.org>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Fix early boot crash on gcc-10, next try
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 14:15:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200425191549.GF17645@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200425185313.GD24294@zn.tnic>

On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 08:53:13PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 01:37:01PM -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > That is a lot more typing then
> > 	asm("");
> 
> That's why a macro with a hopefully more descriptive name would be
> telling more than a mere asm("").

My point is that you should explain at *every use* of this why you cannot
have tail calls *there*.  This is very unusual, after all.

There are *very* few places where you want to prevent tail calls, that's
why there is no attribute for it.


Segher

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-25 19:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2020-04-25 15:04                   ` [PATCH] x86: Fix early boot crash on gcc-10, next try Arvind Sankar
2020-04-25 17:31                     ` Borislav Petkov
2020-04-25 17:52                       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-04-27 17:07                         ` David Laight
2020-04-25 18:37                       ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-04-25 18:53                         ` Borislav Petkov
2020-04-25 19:15                           ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2020-04-25 22:17                             ` Borislav Petkov
2020-04-25 22:25                             ` Arvind Sankar

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