Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Oct 2018 22:30:22 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] x86: Use assembly instruction mnemonics instead of .byte streams in arch_hweight.h |
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On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 10:23:54PM +0200, Uros Bizjak wrote: > Recently the minimum required version of binutils was changed to 2.20, > which supports popcnt instruction mnemonics. The patch removes > corresponding #defines that implement popcnt instructions using target-dependant > .byte streams and uses unified instruction mnemonics instead. > > Tested by building x86_64 and i386 version of the kernel and comparing > objdump dumps of the pathced and unpatched vmlinux.o. They were the same. > > v2: Update commit message to emphasize removal of #defines. > > Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com> > --- > arch/x86/include/asm/arch_hweight.h | 12 ++++-------- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
Thanks.
But with one week before the merge window and this being not nearly urgent, it'll have to wait for after the merge window.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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