On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 10:02 PM Sean Christopherson
<sean.j.christopher...@intel.com> wrote:
>
> I haven't reproduced the crash, but I did find a smoking gun that confirms the
> "register shenanigans are evil shenanigans" theory. I ran into a similar
> thing
> recently where a seemingly innocuous line of code after loading a value into a
> register variable wreaked havoc because it clobbered the input register.
Yup, that certainly looks like the smoking gun.
Thanks for finding an example of this, clearly I'll have to either go
back to the "conditionally use 'A' or 'a' depending on size" model, or
perhaps try Rasmus' patch.
Linus
