Re: [PATCH v2 10/10] x86-64: Document some of entry_64.S

Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30T10:50:59Z

* Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> wrote:

> (And whose idea was it to have pushing the error code be optional?)

I think it must have been some genius trying to save 0.1 cycles while
spending a thousand transistors on it in the critical path and
introducing a dozen crashes and security holes into various kernels
;-)

Thanks,

Ingo