linux-kernel - Re: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction flag

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Date:	Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:07:52 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Jan Hubicka <hubicka@....cz>
CC:	Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@...opsys.COM>, Michael Matz <matz@...e.de>,
	Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@...el32.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gcc@....gnu.org
Subject: Re: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction flag

Jan Hubicka wrote:
>> Yes, if there are four kernels that get it "wrong", that effectively means
>> that the ABI document doesn't describe reality and gcc has to adjust.
> 
> Kernels almost never follow ABI used by applications to last detail.
> Linux kernel is disabling red zone and use kernel code model, yet the
> ABI is not going to be adjusted for that.
> 
> This is resonably easy to fix on kernel side in signal handling, or by
> removing std usage completely (I believe it is not performance win, but
> some benchmarking would be needed to double check)

That's not the issue.  The issue is that the kernel leaks the DF from 
the code that took a signal to the signal handler.

	-hpa
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