linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] Some x86, asm cleanups

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Message-ID: <20110601064826.GA3368@liondog.tnic>
Date:	Wed, 1 Jun 2011 08:48:26 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Some x86, asm cleanups

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 07:06:22PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 05/31/2011 01:21 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > here are a couple of asm cleanups. I hope I don't break some esoteric
> > gas version with them. They survived booting into kvm and on a couple of
> > different machines so I might get lucky.
> > 
> > Suggestions welcome, as always.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> 
> Any way you can try them out on the gas version from hell[TM], a.k.a. 2.16?

Yeah, let me see what I can do. I remember vaguely that my colleague had
problems with some asm changes when building the kernel on suse and one
of their versions should have that bat from hell.

I'll let you know.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.
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