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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Wed, 1 Jul 2020 19:35:18 -0700
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Subject: Re: objtool clac/stac handling change..
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@kernel.org>,
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On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 7:30 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> I guess we could do that. Are there cases where this actually helps?

Hmm. Thinking about it., using that approach might make the
"CONFIG_CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT" choices simpler to handle.

With ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT it generates the perfect non-jump code. And
without it, it generates the (annoying, but inevitable) actual
conditionals.

            Linus