From: Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@gnuweeb.org>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
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Alviro Iskandar Setiawan <alviro.iskandar@gnuweeb.org>,
Jiri Hladky <hladky.jiri@googlemail.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] x86/delay: Fix the wrong asm constraint in `delay_loop()`
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2022 07:14:38 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ad4f351e-202b-fa07-871e-a0c70c310ee7@gnuweeb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0642444da1844f8dae2dc98b34b8ab74@AcuMS.aculab.com>
On 3/1/22 4:54 PM, David Laight wrote:
> Both the function pointers in that code need killing.
> They only have two options (each) so conditional branches
> will almost certainly always have been better.
Yes, I agree with simply using conditional branches to handle this
case. But to keep the changes minimal for the stable tree, let's fix
the obvious real bug first. Someone can refactor it later, but I
don't see that as an urgent thing to refactor.
> I also wonder how well the comment
> The additional jump magic is needed to get the timing stable
> on all the CPU' we have to worry about.
> applies to any modern cpu!
> The code is unchanged since (at least) 2.6.27.
> (It might have been moved from another file.)
Not sure about that...
Thanks for the feedback.
--
Ammar Faizi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-03 0:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-01 9:46 [PATCH v4 0/2] Two x86 fixes Ammar Faizi
2022-03-01 9:46 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] x86/delay: Fix the wrong asm constraint in `delay_loop()` Ammar Faizi
2022-03-01 9:54 ` David Laight
2022-03-03 0:14 ` Ammar Faizi [this message]
2022-03-01 11:33 ` Alviro Iskandar Setiawan
2022-03-03 0:06 ` Ammar Faizi
2022-03-03 0:35 ` David Laight
2022-03-01 9:46 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] x86/mce/amd: Fix memory leak when `threshold_create_bank()` fails Ammar Faizi
2022-03-02 17:26 ` Yazen Ghannam
2022-03-02 23:20 ` Ammar Faizi
2022-03-02 23:27 ` Ammar Faizi
2022-03-03 1:58 ` Alviro Iskandar Setiawan
2022-03-03 2:07 ` Ammar Faizi
2022-03-03 2:32 ` Ammar Faizi
2022-03-03 2:51 ` Alviro Iskandar Setiawan
2022-03-07 0:27 ` Ammar Faizi
2022-03-09 20:55 ` Yazen Ghannam
2022-03-10 1:56 ` Ammar Faizi
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