Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Sep 2019 14:49:11 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Improve memset |
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On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 03:10:21PM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > Then the "reverse alternatives" feature wouldn't be needed anyway.
The intent was to have the default, most-used version be there at build-time, obviating the need to patch. Therefore on those old !ERMS CPUs we'll end up doing rep;stosb before patching, which is supported, albeit slow.
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