On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 11:13:27PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 07:08:35PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > (%rdx), %rax, surely?
>
> Right, later. Already tagged the branch so that Vinod can base stuff ontop.
>
> > Also, that's a horrible convention, but I suppose (%rdx), (%rax) was
> > out?
>
> See the end of this mail:
>
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.lsu.2.20.2009241356020.20...@wotan.suse.de
That, 100x that. Why wasn't it fixed then? How about we fix binutils to
accept the sane mnemonic as well?
> > Can we pretty please get a binutils version that knows about this
> > instruction, such that we know when we can get rid of the silly .byte
> > encoded mess?
>
> It looks like support for this insn got introduced in this binutils commit:
>
> c0a30a9f0ab4 ("Enable Intel MOVDIRI, MOVDIR64B instructions")
>
> So I guess from 2.31 onwards:
Then we'll just keep the byte code around until we reach the min
binutils that's sane, but at least we can fix the comment to not be
insane.
