Re: [PATCH] x86/retpoline: Switch thunk names to match final GCC patches

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sun Jan 14 2018 - 18:37:50 EST


On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 3:23 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think we *shouldn't* do this. Uros said we could look at it and make
> a decision, and GCC would implement what we decide. Up to Linus.

Regardless of whether we end up having to do this, I'm not doing rc8
with it, and let's hope we can just skip it entirely.

It seems silly to have the 'r' for the r8-r15 case, but not the legacy
registers.

Linus