| From | Andy Lutomirski <> | Date | Wed, 13 May 2020 21:54:14 -0700 | Subject | Re: [patch V4 part 3 29/29] x86/entry/32: Convert IRET exception to IDTENTRY_SW |
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On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 7:15 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote: > > From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> > > Convert the IRET exception handler to IDTENTRY_SW. This is slightly > different than the conversions of hardware exceptions as the IRET exception > is invoked via an exception table when IRET faults. So it just uses the > IDTENTRY_SW mechanism for consistency. It does not emit ASM code as it does > not fit the other idtentry exceptions.
Blech. I should redo the 32-bit code to handle this the way the 64-bit code does and this can all be deleted. But, for now:
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
However, maybe rename asm_exc_iret_error to avoid confusion? It's not really an exception entry.
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