linux-kernel - Re: objtool clac/stac handling change..

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Date:   Wed, 1 Jul 2020 19:35:18 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: objtool clac/stac handling change..

On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 7:30 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> I guess we could do that. Are there cases where this actually helps?

Hmm. Thinking about it., using that approach might make the
"CONFIG_CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT" choices simpler to handle.

With ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT it generates the perfect non-jump code. And
without it, it generates the (annoying, but inevitable) actual
conditionals.

            Linus