linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] x86 cleanups for v5.7

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Message-ID: <20200402180359.GI9352@zn.tnic>
Date:   Thu, 2 Apr 2020 20:03:59 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michael Matz <matz@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86 cleanups for v5.7

On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 10:40:14AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Yeah. And there are other places where we might want to use it.

My only worry is that if we had that support, we would have to keep two
versions of the facilities which use it - one with asm goto with outputs
and one without.

Dunno how ugly that would become ...

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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