Re: [RFC][PATCH 01/22] x86 user stack frame reads: switch to explicit __get_user()

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Sun Mar 29 2020 - 17:22:22 EST


On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 11:16 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> But that magical asm-goto-with-outputs patch probably won't land
> upstream for a couple of years.

I'm not that familiar with gcc politics, but what's the delay? ISTM
having an actual upstream Linux asm-goto-with-outputs that works on
clang might help light a fire under some butts and/or convince someone
to pay a gcc developer to implement it on gcc.

--Andy