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Re: [PATCH, i386]: Emit cld instruction when stringops are used
No, gcc was never doing that, and there is no point to start doing
that.
If inline asm thinks it can't trust the psABI, it has to do cld on
its own.
And AFAIK inline asm that uses stos*/movs* etc. typically has cld at
the
beginning. If inline asm uses std, it must do cld before returning
back to
compiler generated code (again, from what I've seen asm that uses std
has the corresponding cld too).
You forget that there is a ton of code in the world that does:
void foo() {
asm ( " rep; movsb", ...)
}
Knowing that the direction flag is clear on entry to the function.
You propose auditing all the *existing* inline asm code active in the
world? I thought the issue here was that *user* space can't trust
that the direction flag is clear because of the kernel bug: if so,
this isn't just about inline asm in the kernel.
-Chris