Re: [PATCH v2 01/39] Documentation/x86: Add CET description

Bagas Sanjaya
2022-09-30T13:41:46Z

On 9/30/22 20:33, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> CET introduces Shadow Stack and Indirect Branch Tracking. Shadow stack is
>> a secondary stack allocated from memory and cannot be directly modified by
>> -applications. When executing a CALL instruction, the processor pushes the
>> +applications. When executing a ``CALL`` instruction, the processor pushes the
>
> Just to be clear, not everybody is fond of sprinkling lots of ``literal
> text`` throughout the documentation in this way. Heavy use of it will
> certainly clutter the plain-text file and can be a net negative overall.
>

Actually there is a trade-off between semantic correctness and plain-text
clarity. With regards to inline code samples (like identifiers), I fall
into the former camp. But when I'm reviewing patches for which the
surrounding documentation go latter camp (leave code samples alone without
markup), I can adapt to that style as long as it causes no warnings
whatsover.

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