Re: [PATCH v2 00/23] x86: Remove anonymous out-of-line fixups
From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Thu Nov 11 2021 - 02:55:29 EST
On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 11:01:02AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Changes since v1:
>
> - Dropped using __cold on labels, because clang. Also gcc doesn't actually
> generate different code with it. The intent was for the code to end up in
> .text.cold but that doesn't happen.
> - Fixed the vmread constraints to disallow %0 == %1.
> - Added a asm-goto-output variant to vmx's vmread implementation.
> - Audited Xen and FPU code and converted them from -1 to -EFAULT,
> as a concequence EX_TYPE_NEG_REG no longer exists.
> - Fixed the EX_DATA_*_MASK macros to include an explicit 'int' cast,
> such that FIELD_GET() will sign-extend the top field.
I didn't (yet) get the chance to properly review the alignment math in
patches 20 & 21. Otherwise it looks great to me.
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Josh