Re: [PATCH 07/18] x86/asm/64: Merge the fast and slow SYSRET paths

Borislav Petkov
2017-11-01T12:35:09Z

On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 04:29:21AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> I'm inclined to leave it. I first wrote it without the long name and
> then I had to re-read the code to make sure I got the register state
> right. The long name serves as documentation that we need rcx and r11
> to have special contents. There's only one place that jumps there and
> it's in the same function.

Frankly, I'd prefer a sane label name and a good comment over it instead
of insanely long label name which is not as explanatory as a normal
english sentence or two.

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