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Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 06:17:16 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] x86/asm: Add suffix macro for GEN_*_RMWcc()

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 4:13 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 02:39:51PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>> The coming x86 refcount protection needs to be able to add trailing
>> instructions to the GEN_*_RMWcc() operations. This extracts the
>> difference between the goto/non-goto cases so the helper macros
>> can be defined outside the #ifdef cases. Additionally adds argument
>> naming to the resulting asm for referencing from suffixed
>> instructions, and adds clobbers for "cc", and "cx" to let suffixes
>> use _ASM_CX, and retain any set flags.
>
> Another option is to simply require __GCC_ASM_FLAG_OUTPUT__ for the fast
> refcount stuff. That would result in simpler and more readable code.

What versions of GCC support that?

-Kees

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Kees Cook
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