Re: [PATCH 00/13] [RFC] Rust support

2021-04-16 Thread comex
On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 4:24 AM Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Simlar thing for RCU; C11 can't optimally do that; it needs to make > rcu_dereference() a load-acquire [something ARM64 has already done in C > because the compiler might be too clever by half when doing LTO :-(]. > But it's the compiler need

Re: [PATCH] x86-64: espfix for 64-bit mode *PROTOTYPE*

2014-04-23 Thread comex
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 6:47 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > This is a prototype of espfix for the 64-bit kernel. espfix is a > workaround for the architectural definition of IRET, which fails to > restore bits [31:16] of %esp when returning to a 16-bit stack > segment. We have a workaround for the