Re: [patch V4 part 4 23/24] x86/entry: Provide IDTENTRY_DF

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Fri May 15 2020 - 11:01:55 EST


Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 7:16 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Provide a separate macro for #DF as this needs to emit paranoid only code
>> and has also a special ASM stub in 32bit.
>
> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> but... maybe it would be cleaner just to open-code all of this in the
> next patch? This is a lot of macro to do nothing at all.

Well, yes and no. The point is that we really want to have all idt
entries marked IDENTRY_ and have the prototypes including the XEN
variants generated.

Thanks,

tglx