On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 06:41:01PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > - if we had negative alternatives objtool doesn't need to actually > > rewrite code in this case. It could simply emit alternative entries > > and call it a day. > > I don't mind the negative alt per se - I mind the implementation I saw. > I'm sure we can come up with something nicer, like, for example, struct > alt_instr.flags to denote that this feature is a NOT feature.
So you don't like the ~ or - on cpuid? ISTR we talked about alt_instr::flags before, but Google isn't playing ball today so I can't seem to find it. I can certainly look at adding the flags thing.
