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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	x86@kernel.org, Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Numfor Mbiziwo-Tiapo <nums@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/insn, tools/x86: Fix some potential undefined behavior.
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:37:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201016093724.GH2611@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5E711F64-A9BF-48EC-83A3-3C644D80F848@zytor.com>

On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 02:34:57PM -0700, hpa@zytor.com wrote:
> Wait, what?
> 
> You are taking about x86-specific code, and on x86 unaligned memory
> accesses are supported, well-defined, and ubiquitous. 

Objtool uses this x86 instruction decoder, people are cross-buildling
objtool to cross-build x86 kernels.

So it's entirely possible to run the x86 insn decode on BE RISC, which
very much doesn't like unaligned loads.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-10-16  9:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-15 16:12 Ian Rogers
2020-10-15 21:34 ` hpa
2020-10-15 21:47   ` Ian Rogers
2020-10-16  8:24     ` David Laight
2020-10-16  8:47   ` David Laight
2020-10-16  9:37   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2020-10-16  1:33 ` Masami Hiramatsu

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