Re: [GIT PULL] x86/urgent for v5.11-rc7

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Feb 09 2021 - 15:25:11 EST


On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 8:55 AM Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Or we hack up #CP to handle this case. I don’t quite know how I feel about this.

I think that's the sane model - if we've replaced the instruction with
'int3', and we end up getting #CP due to that, just do the #BP
handling.

Anything else would just be insanely complicated, I feel.

Linus