Re: [PATCH v5 8/9] x86-64: Emulate legacy vsyscalls

[Ingo Molnar]

* Andrew Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > We could even 'tie down' the actual assembly by moving this all 
> > to a .S - this way we protect against GCC accidentally generating 
> > something dangerous in there. I suggested that before.
> 
> I have no problem with that suggestion, except that once the 
> current series makes it into -tip I intend to move vread_tsc and 
> vread_hpet to the vDSO.  So leaving them alone for now saves work, 
> and they'll be more maintainable later if they're written in C.

Sure, if they move to the vDSO real soon then moving them to assembly 
becomes moot.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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