On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Mar 2016 18:24:12 +0100 (CET) > Jiri Kosina <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > So, if Clang is producing wrong X86 code here, is it possible to turn >> > interrupts on/off manually? But, hmm that affects other places as well >> > in the Linux sources, so. >> >> This issue needs to be handled in the compiler. >> > > Exactly. The compiler may get away with this in userspace (maybe), but > for the kernel, it is definitely a show stopper. Especially if it knows > that an asm() may be called.
It's broken for user code that fiddles with AC, too. --Andy
