Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261597AbVCNAPV (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:15:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261596AbVCNAPU (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:15:20 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:17343 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261597AbVCNAPH (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:15:07 -0500 Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 16:16:47 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Stas Sergeev cc: Pavel Machek , Alan Cox , Linux kernel , Petr Vandrovec , Denis Vlasenko Subject: Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <42348474.7040808@aknet.ru> <20050313201020.GB8231@elf.ucw.cz> <4234A8DD.9080305@aknet.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1000 Lines: 24 On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > That said, the "ldt_ss" case should be moved _after_ the conditional > tests, since most CPU's out there will do static prediction based on > forward/backwards direction Btw, Stas, one thing I'd really like to see is even a partial list of anything that actually cares about this. Ie, if there is some known Windows app where Wine works better or something like that, just adding that information to the comments would be hugely appreciated. Another way of saying the same thing: I absolutely hate seeing patches that fix some theoretical issue that no Linux apps will ever care about. So I'd like to have a bit more of a case for this patch, since I know what the case against it is ;) Linus - 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/