linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/7] DWARF: add the config option

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Date:   Mon, 22 May 2017 14:16:08 -0700
From:   "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        live-patching@...r.kernel.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] DWARF: add the config option

On 05/22/17 04:12, Ingo Molnar wrote:
\>>
>> This construct might be useful for other arches, which is why I called
>> it "FP" instead of "BP".  But then I ruined that with the last 3 :-)
> 
> Please call it BP - 'FP' can easily be read as floating-point, making it all 
> super-confusing. We should use canonical x86 register names and ordering - even
> if not all registers are used straight away.
> 

Seriously, I suspect that at the end of the day we will have reinvented
DWARF.

	-hpa