From: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] EFI fix
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 13:08:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160523120801.GB2984@codeblueprint.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFzBS2v=WnEH83cUDg7XkOremFqJ30BJwF40dCYjReBkUQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 16 May, at 01:05:45PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> I think the right fix is to just get rid of that silly conditional
> frame pointer thing, and always use frame pointers in this stub
> function. And then we don't need that (odd) load to get the old stack
> pointer into %rax - we can just use the frame pointer.
>
> Something like the attached completely untested patch.
Linus, are you going to apply your patch directly or would you prefer
someone to send a pull request which also includes Josh's patch for
arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-23 12:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-16 14:46 [GIT PULL] EFI fix Ingo Molnar
2016-05-16 20:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-05-16 20:23 ` Alex Thorlton
2016-05-16 22:40 ` Alex Thorlton
2016-05-17 6:30 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86/efi: Fix 7-parameter efi_call()s tip-bot for Linus Torvalds
2016-05-17 9:04 ` [GIT PULL] EFI fix Matt Fleming
2016-05-17 9:46 ` Matt Fleming
2016-05-17 10:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-05-17 14:43 ` [PATCH] x86/asm/entry: fix stack return address retrieval in thunk Josh Poimboeuf
2016-05-17 16:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-05-17 16:51 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-05-17 17:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-05-17 17:25 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-05-17 18:06 ` [PATCH v2] " Josh Poimboeuf
2016-05-17 18:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-05-19 9:12 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86/entry/64: Fix " tip-bot for Josh Poimboeuf
2016-05-23 12:08 ` Matt Fleming [this message]
2016-05-23 12:33 ` [GIT PULL] EFI fix Josh Poimboeuf
2016-05-24 9:03 ` Ingo Molnar
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-05-18 9:17 Ingo Molnar
2019-05-19 17:45 ` pr-tracker-bot
2019-01-11 7:46 Ingo Molnar
2019-01-11 14:22 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2019-01-11 17:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-12 8:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-01-11 17:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-12 8:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-11-30 6:21 Ingo Molnar
2018-11-30 21:00 ` pr-tracker-bot
2018-07-30 17:44 Ingo Molnar
2018-07-13 19:57 Ingo Molnar
2017-06-10 8:31 Ingo Molnar
2016-04-28 17:48 Ingo Molnar
2016-04-16 9:08 Ingo Molnar
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