Re: [PATCH] x86/cpu: Fix SMAP check in PVOPS environments

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Jun 04 2015 - 16:30:05 EST


On 06/04/2015 12:55 PM, Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> Yeah, hard cases make bad law.
>
> I'm not too unhappy with this fix; ideally we'd rename save_fl and
> restore_fl to save_eflags_if and restore_eflags_if too.
>

I would be fine with this... but please document what the bloody
semantics of pvops is actually supposed to be.

-hpa


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