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Date:	Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:56:56 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Cc:	Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@...il.com>, stable@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 03/18] Dont leak NT bit into next task

On Thursday 22 February 2007 16:29, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:00:15AM +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> > On Wednesday 21 February 2007 02:49, Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > >  /* frame pointer must be last for get_wchan */
> > > -#define SAVE_CONTEXT    "pushq %%rbp ; movq %%rsi,%%rbp\n\t"
> > > -#define RESTORE_CONTEXT "movq %%rbp,%%rsi ; popq %%rbp\n\t"
> > > +#define SAVE_CONTEXT    "pushf ; pushq %%rbp ; movq %%rsi,%%rbp\n\t"
> > > +#define RESTORE_CONTEXT "movq %%rbp,%%rsi ; popq %%rbp ; popf\t"
> > 
> > No idea if this is a problem or not, but you forgot a \n after popf.
> 
> A discussion of this issue is in the thread starting with [1]
> (and I'd re-add the \n in -stable kernels with the patch below 
>  (stolen from 2.6.16) no matter what happened in Linus' tree).

The newline only helps some broken out of tree patches (which I won't name here)
that shouldn't touch this anyways.

-Andi

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