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Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2022 09:16:31 +0700
From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/39] Documentation/x86: Add CET description
On 10/3/22 23:56, Edgecombe, Rick P wrote:
> On Fri, 2022-09-30 at 20:41 +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
>> On 9/30/22 20:33, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>>>> CET introduces Shadow Stack and Indirect Branch Tracking.
>>>> Shadow stack is
>>>> a secondary stack allocated from memory and cannot be directly
>>>> modified by
>>>> -applications. When executing a CALL instruction, the processor
>>>> pushes the
>>>> +applications. When executing a ``CALL`` instruction, the
>>>> processor pushes the
>>>
>>> Just to be clear, not everybody is fond of sprinkling lots of
>>> ``literal
>>> text`` throughout the documentation in this way. Heavy use of it
>>> will
>>> certainly clutter the plain-text file and can be a net negative
>>> overall.
>>>
>>
>> Actually there is a trade-off between semantic correctness and plain-
>> text
>> clarity. With regards to inline code samples (like identifiers), I
>> fall
>> into the former camp. But when I'm reviewing patches for which the
>> surrounding documentation go latter camp (leave code samples alone
>> without
>> markup), I can adapt to that style as long as it causes no warnings
>> whatsover.
>
> Thanks. Unless anyone has any objections, I think I'll take all these
> changes, except for the literal-izing of the instructions. They are not
> really being used as code samples in this case.
>
> Bagas, can you reply with your sign-off and I'll just apply it?
OK, here goes...
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
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