From: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com,
x86@kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, paulus@samba.org,
acme@kernel.org, jkenisto@us.ibm.com, srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
tglx@linutronix.de, ananth@in.ibm.com,
anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com, davem@davemloft.net,
masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: remove arbitrary instruction size limit in instruction decoder
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 16:20:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1415924407.4306.2.camel@oc1026406570.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141112225352.D49917A8@viggo.jf.intel.com>
On Wed, 2014-11-12 at 14:53 -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
>
> The current x86 instruction decoder steps along through the
> instruction stream but always ensures that it never steps farther
> than the largest possible instruction size (MAX_INSN_SIZE).
...
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-14 0:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-12 22:53 [PATCH] x86: remove arbitrary instruction size limit in instruction decoder Dave Hansen
2014-11-13 1:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-11-13 14:49 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-11-17 20:49 ` Dave Hansen
2014-11-17 22:16 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-11-14 0:20 ` Jim Keniston [this message]
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