Re: [PATCH v2 10/10] x86-64: Document some of entry_64.S

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon May 30 2011 - 06:51:03 EST



* Andrew Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> (And whose idea was it to have pushing the error code be optional?)

I think it must have been some genius trying to save 0.1 cycles while
spending a thousand transistors on it in the critical path and
introducing a dozen crashes and security holes into various kernels
;-)

Thanks,

Ingo
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