Re: clang asm-goto support (Was Re: [PATCH v2] x86/retpoline: Add clang support)

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Feb 14 2018 - 04:53:26 EST


On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 08:41:43AM +0000, Chandler Carruth wrote:
> Marina, Kees:
>
> I think the combination of LKML and the LLVM developer's list is probably
> too large a set of folks to have a (somewhat) lengthy exploration of
> options and how to go about this and find a good path forward.

Why is there any need to discuss "options" here? What is preventing the
implementation of "asm goto" in llvm? Is it the lack of a working
patch, or something else?

thanks,

greg k-h