Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Sep 2022 11:46:25 +0100 | From | Mark Rutland <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] arm64 fixes for -rc7 |
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On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 03:43:05PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 11:28 AM Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> wrote: > > > > Please pull these arm64 fixes for -rc7. They're all very simple and > > self-contained, although the CFI jump-table fix touches the generic > > linker script as that's where the problematic macro lives. > > The commit message is a bit confusing. It talks about "hysterical > raisins on x86", but CONFIG_CFI_CLANG has always been arm64-only. No? > > So I'm not seeing what the x86 comment is about?
It was a an accidental inclusion inthe ARM64 CFI series while x86 CFI support was being developed; in the thread in the LINK tage, Sami says:
| This was a leftover from an old x86 series, which was included here by | mistake. Will also asked me about this a couple of weeks ago, I think, and | said he'd send a patch to remove it.
The relevant message being:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CABCJKufrRCb84fafhsR8_fftBLv0_pvufL_ZZieUSTJfhdT+fw@mail.gmail.com/
Thanks, Mark.
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