From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760016AbcAUS7f (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jan 2016 13:59:35 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:57411 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759611AbcAUS7d (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jan 2016 13:59:33 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] x86/cpufeature: Get rid of the non-asm goto variant To: Borislav Petkov References: <1453401286-26966-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de> <1453401286-26966-4-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski , Brian Gerst , X86 ML , LKML From: "H. Peter Anvin" Message-ID: <56A12A79.1000208@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 10:59:05 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1453401286-26966-4-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/21/16 10:34, Borislav Petkov wrote: > From: Borislav Petkov > > I can simply quote hpa from the mail: > > "Get rid of the non-asm goto variant and just fall back to dynamic if > asm goto is unavailable. It doesn't make any sense, really, if it is > supposed to be safe, and by now the asm goto-capable gcc is in more wide > use. (Originally the gcc 3.x fallback to pure dynamic didn't exist, > either.)" > > Booy, am I lazy. > Laughed-at-by: H. Peter Anvin ;) -hpa