Re: [PATCH 4.4 018/107] x86/paravirt: Make native_save_fl() extern inline

[Ben Hutchings]

On Mon, 2018-07-23 at 14:41 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 4.4-stable review patch.ÂÂIf anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
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> From: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> commit d0a8d9378d16eb3c69bd8e6d23779fbdbee3a8c7 upstream.
> 
> native_save_fl() is marked static inline, but by using it as
> a function pointer in arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c, it MUST be outlined.
> 
> paravirt's use of native_save_fl() also requires that no GPRs other than
> %rax are clobbered.
[...]

Shouldn't native_restore_fl() be changed similarly?  You added an out-
of-line definition, but it doesn't seem like it will actually be used.

Ben.

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