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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	bp@alien8.de, jpoimboe@redhat.com, richard.weinberger@gmail.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 10:15:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170224091537.GA18182@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ACE4966E-DF3F-4699-BB2A-B72183353AB7@zytor.com>


* hpa@zytor.com <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

> Incidentally, as an alternative to a #UD, int $9 could be an alternative 
> (exception vector 9 was discontinued with the 486.)

With thousands of call sites a one byte opcode would be preferred, that's why INT3 
is so nice.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-24  9:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-23 13:28 [PATCH] x86: Implement __WARN using UD0 Peter Zijlstra
2017-02-23 14:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-02-23 14:59   ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-02-23 15:09   ` hpa
2017-02-23 15:23     ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-02-23 15:32       ` hpa
2017-02-23 16:03         ` Borislav Petkov
2017-02-23 14:12 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-02-23 14:17   ` Borislav Petkov
2017-02-23 14:36   ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-02-23 14:14 ` Arjan van de Ven
2017-02-23 14:57   ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-02-24  7:43     ` Ingo Molnar
2017-02-24  8:31       ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-02-24  9:06         ` hpa
2017-02-24  9:11         ` hpa
2017-02-24  9:15           ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2017-02-24  9:46             ` Borislav Petkov
2017-02-24  9:52               ` H. Peter Anvin
     [not found]             ` <21ac6e53-2fcd-52e9-e72d-9faf7da14d1e@zytor.com>
2017-02-24 10:41               ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-02-25 10:38                 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-02-25 17:55                   ` hpa
2017-02-25 19:38                     ` Borislav Petkov
2017-02-25 20:04                       ` hpa
2017-02-25 20:29                         ` Borislav Petkov
2017-02-24 11:16 ` [PATCH -v2] " Peter Zijlstra
2017-02-25  8:19   ` [RFC][PATCH] bug: Add _ONCE logic to report_bug() Peter Zijlstra
2017-02-25  9:18     ` Ingo Molnar
2017-02-25  9:44       ` Peter Zijlstra

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