Re: [PATCH 4/8] x86: Add support for rd/wr fs/gs base

[Andi Kleen]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 10:25:42PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 01:21:32PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > Is there some reason that the normal ALTERNATIVE macro can't be used here?
> > 
> > This is assembler, not C.
> 
> He's talking about the ALTERNATIVE asm macro in alternative-asm.h in
> tip/master now. No open coded crap.

I don't think that macro works jumps that are patched in
(and probably should have never been added because of that)

-Andi

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