linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Revert "x86/uaccess: Add stack frame output operand in get

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Date:   Thu, 13 Jul 2017 16:52:12 -0500
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To:     Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>
Cc:     Andrey Rybainin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>,
        Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@...onical.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
        Michael Davidson <md@...gle.com>,
        Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@...gle.com>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Stephen Hines <srhines@...gle.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Bernhard Rosenkränzer 
        <Bernhard.Rosenkranzer@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "x86/uaccess: Add stack frame output operand in
 get_user() inline asm"

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 02:43:26PM -0700, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> > >> AFAIR clang works much better with global named registers.

Is that a bug or a feature?

-- 
Josh