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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
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	Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
	Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>,
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	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
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	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] compiler_types: Introduce the Clang __preserve_most function attribute
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 14:58:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <169213670578.656151.9756083800563304743.b4-ty@chromium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230811151847.1594958-1-elver@google.com>

On Fri, 11 Aug 2023 17:18:38 +0200, Marco Elver wrote:
> [1]: "On X86-64 and AArch64 targets, this attribute changes the calling
> convention of a function. The preserve_most calling convention attempts
> to make the code in the caller as unintrusive as possible. This
> convention behaves identically to the C calling convention on how
> arguments and return values are passed, but it uses a different set of
> caller/callee-saved registers. This alleviates the burden of saving and
> recovering a large register set before and after the call in the caller.
> If the arguments are passed in callee-saved registers, then they will be
> preserved by the callee across the call. This doesn't apply for values
> returned in callee-saved registers.
> 
> [...]

Applied to for-next/hardening, thanks!

[1/4] compiler_types: Introduce the Clang __preserve_most function attribute
      https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/7a0fd5e16785
[2/4] list_debug: Introduce inline wrappers for debug checks
      https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/b16c42c8fde8
[3/4] list: Introduce CONFIG_LIST_HARDENED
      https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/aebc7b0d8d91
[4/4] hardening: Move BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION to hardening options
      https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/aa9f10d57056

Take care,

-- 
Kees Cook


      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-08-15 21:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-11 15:18 [PATCH v4 1/4] compiler_types: Introduce the Clang __preserve_most function attribute Marco Elver
2023-08-11 15:18 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] list_debug: Introduce inline wrappers for debug checks Marco Elver
2023-08-11 15:18 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] list: Introduce CONFIG_LIST_HARDENED Marco Elver
2023-08-11 15:18 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] hardening: Move BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION to hardening options Marco Elver
2023-08-14 23:21 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] compiler_types: Introduce the Clang __preserve_most function attribute Kees Cook
2023-08-15 18:21   ` Marco Elver
2023-08-15 21:31   ` Andrew Morton
2023-08-15 21:58 ` Kees Cook [this message]

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