Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/3] x86/xen: Avoid fast syscall path for Xen PV guests

[Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 12:21:56PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Could we make this a little less subtle:
> 
> ALTERNATIVE "testl %eax, %eax; lz .Lsyscall_32_done", "jmp
> .Lsyscasll_32_done", X86_FEATURE_XENPV
> 
> Borislav, what do you think?

I don't mind either.

I would've said your version doesn't touch %eax so the result in there
might be useful for callers but all paths do overwrite it, AFAICT.

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    Boris.

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