Re: [PATCH v8 3/3] x86, mce: Add __mcsafe_copy()

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Mon Jan 11 2016 - 19:37:59 EST


On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Luck, Tony <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 05:49:30PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> Also, what's the sfence for? You don't seem to be using any
>> non-temporal operations.
>
> So I deleted the "sfence" and now I just have a comment
> at the 100: label.
>
> 37:
> shl $6,%ecx
> lea -48(%ecx,%edx),%edx
> jmp 100f
> 38:
> shl $6,%ecx
> lea -56(%ecx,%edx),%edx
> jmp 100f
> 39:
> lea (%rdx,%rcx,8),%rdx
> jmp 100f
> 40:
> mov %ecx,%edx
> 100:
> /* %rax set the fault number in fixup_exception() */
> ret
>
> Should I just change all the "jmp 100f" into "ret"? There
> aren't any tools that will be confused that the function
> has 10 returns, are there?
>

Given that gcc does that too, it should be fine.

--Andy\