Re: [PATCH v2 09/36] x86/asm: Re-add manual CFI infrastructure

[Ingo Molnar]

* Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 11:21:41AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> > OK, I'll strip out the push, movq, etc stuff for v3.  I'll leave all of the 
> > CFI_XYZ macros, even the unused one, because that's only a couple of lines of 
> > code and they all have very simple and obvious meanings (or as simple as the 
> > underlying directives, anyway).
> 
> If they're going to be used by the vDSO only, maybe they all should go into a 
> header which is private to the vDSO only so that people don't get any ideas and 
> the gunk starts spreading again...

Yeah. So for the vDSO code itself it's an obvious step forward: replacing black 
magic hexa encodings with symbolic directives.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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