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From: Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ardb+git@google.com>,
	 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
	 Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
	 Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	 Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>,
	Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>,
	 Song Liu <song@kernel.org>, Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@kernel.org>,
	 Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>,
	Arthur Eubanks <aeubanks@google.com>,
	 stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/purgatory: Switch to the position-independent small code model
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 15:15:47 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5199b4f0-b4c7-5ef4-e8b7-0ade7c533edd@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ce6cf96-685d-4792-b2fd-949c07eff707@kernel.org>

Hello,

On Tue, 30 Apr 2024, Jiri Slaby wrote:

> >> Interesting. I thought gcc doesn't have problems here yet and was
> >> talking to Matz on Thu about it and it seems he's forgotten about his
> >> statement too that "you should simply stop using -mcmodel=large.  Noone
> >> should use it." :-)
> > 
> > It may be so ingrained in my brain that I'm not _always_ saying it when
> > talking about the large code model over a beer.  And indeed I know of no
> > particular problems with it vis GCC,
> 
> Of course you do :).

:-P

> That bsc#1211853 I linked earlier. I.e. gcc-13 +
> -fstrict-flex-arrays=3 + -mcmodel=large + some asm() expecting __FILE__ to be
> constant (not true with the large model).

"asm() expecting $whatever" - clearly a user problem, not a GCC problem 
;-)


Ciao,
Michael.

      reply	other threads:[~2024-04-30 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-18 20:17 [PATCH] x86/purgatory: Switch to the position-independent small code model Ard Biesheuvel
2024-04-18 20:36 ` Nick Desaulniers
2024-04-18 20:46   ` Fangrui Song
2024-04-20 15:29   ` Borislav Petkov
2024-04-20 15:51     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2024-04-18 20:37 ` Nathan Chancellor
2024-04-19 11:35 ` Jiri Slaby
2024-04-20 13:17   ` Borislav Petkov
2024-04-29 12:05     ` Michael Matz
2024-04-29 12:30       ` Borislav Petkov
2024-04-30  5:15       ` Jiri Slaby
2024-04-30 13:15         ` Michael Matz [this message]

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