linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 3/9] x86/bugs: Decouple ALTERNATIVE usage from VERW macro definition

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Message-ID: <20251118103235.GAaRxLQ74QAzt32r6A@fat_crate.local>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:32:35 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@...ux.intel.com>,
	Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/9] x86/bugs: Decouple ALTERNATIVE usage from VERW
 macro definition

On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 07:33:12AM -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Brendan also brought this up in v4[*].  Unless there's a way to coerce ALTERNATIVE_2
> into working with multiple strings, the layer of indirection is needed so that KVM
> can emit __stringify() for the entire sequence.

Ah, yah, there was that.

Pls put a small comment above it so that we don't forget.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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