linux-kernel - Re: [GIT pull] x86/urgent for v5.15-rc3

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Date:   Tue, 28 Sep 2021 22:41:06 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT pull] x86/urgent for v5.15-rc3

On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 01:13:49PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Well, cleaner.
> 
> You lost the leXX_to_cpu() part, so now it does the wrong thing if you
> were to cross-build the tooling side on a BE architecture.

Bah, I got carried away with the axe...

And looka here: 1d509f2a6ebc ("x86/insn: Support big endian cross-compiles")
 
> I'm not sure that matters. BE is dead, nobody would ever cross-build
> tooling that way. But maybe a compile-time error, at least, so that
> the problem is obvious.

Yeah, lemme re-add those conversion things - looks like we do use them.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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