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From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 09:15:07PM -0500, Qian Cai wrote:
> Okay, so which way should we move forward with this then? Borislav
> liked __no_kasan_or_inline and Peter liked data_race(). I personally
> like data_race() more because it has nothing to do with the GCC bug,
> but I realized my opinion has little weight here.

Do the data_race() thing, pls.

But do send after the merge window because latter should open next week
and we all will be busy and not review/apply new stuff.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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