From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753439AbbC3JGF (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Mar 2015 05:06:05 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:57278 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752878AbbC3JGC (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Mar 2015 05:06:02 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 11:04:08 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Denys Vlasenko , Andy Lutomirski , Linus Torvalds , Denys Vlasenko , Linux Kernel Mailing List , X86 ML , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , stable Subject: Re: [RFC] x86, ia32entry: Use sysretl to return from sysenter Message-ID: <20150330090408.GD19897@pd.tnic> References: <9414b4dfad7ad90b0315323be32d977867719bd4.1427493165.git.luto@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 02:16:05PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > sysexit_from_sys_call: > > /* > > * Sysretl works even on Intel CPUs. Use it in preference to sysexit, > > * since it avoids a dicey window with interrupts enabled. Btw, let's agree on the convention to write instructions in capital letters, i.e. Sysretl -> SYSRET and so on... Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply. --