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From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date:   Sun, 29 Mar 2020 14:21:58 -0700
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 01/22] x86 user stack frame reads: switch to explicit __get_user()
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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        Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
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On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 11:16 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> But that magical asm-goto-with-outputs patch probably won't land
> upstream for a couple of years.

I'm not that familiar with gcc politics, but what's the delay?  ISTM
having an actual upstream Linux asm-goto-with-outputs that works on
clang might help light a fire under some butts and/or convince someone
to pay a gcc developer to implement it on gcc.

--Andy