Re: [tip: x86/pasid] x86/asm: Carve out a generic movdir64b() helper for general usage

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 11:13:27PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 07:08:35PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > (%rdx), %rax, surely?
> 
> Right, later. Already tagged the branch so that Vinod can base stuff ontop.
> 
> > Also, that's a horrible convention, but I suppose (%rdx), (%rax) was
> > out?
> 
> See the end of this mail:
> 
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.20.2009241356020.20802@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

That, 100x that. Why wasn't it fixed then? How about we fix binutils to
accept the sane mnemonic as well?

> > Can we pretty please get a binutils version that knows about this
> > instruction, such that we know when we can get rid of the silly .byte
> > encoded mess?
> 
> It looks like support for this insn got introduced in this binutils commit:
> 
> c0a30a9f0ab4 ("Enable Intel MOVDIRI, MOVDIR64B instructions")
> 
> So I guess from 2.31 onwards:

Then we'll just keep the byte code around until we reach the min
binutils that's sane, but at least we can fix the comment to not be
insane.