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Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 13:13:09 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] x86/asm: Add suffix macro for GEN_*_RMWcc()

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.

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