Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754472AbaKNAUf (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2014 19:20:35 -0500 Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.149]:38830 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754464AbaKNAUO (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2014 19:20:14 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: remove arbitrary instruction size limit in instruction decoder From: Jim Keniston To: Dave Hansen 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 In-Reply-To: <20141112225352.D49917A8@viggo.jf.intel.com> References: <20141112225352.D49917A8@viggo.jf.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 16:20:07 -0800 Message-ID: <1415924407.4306.2.camel@oc1026406570.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.3 (2.32.3-30.el6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 14111400-8236-0000-0000-000006E92735 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2014-11-12 at 14:53 -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > From: Dave Hansen > > 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 Acked-by: Jim Keniston -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/