On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 09:40:02AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 7:41 AM Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Peterz, isn't there some fancy better way we're supposed to handle the > error return these days? > > + asm volatile("1:.byte 0x66, 0x0f, 0x38, 0xf5, 0x37\n" > > + "xor %[err],%[err]\n" > > + "2:\n" > > + ".section .fixup,\"ax\"\n" > > + "3: mov $-1,%[err]; jmp 2b\n" > > + ".previous\n" > > + _ASM_EXTABLE(1b, 3b) > > + : [err] "=a" (err) > > + : [val] "S" (val), [addr] "D" (addr) > > + : "memory"); So the alternative is something like: __visible bool ex_handler_wuss(const struct exception_table_entry *fixup, struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr) { regs->ip = ex_fixup_addr(fixup); regs->ax = -1L; return true; } int err = 0; asm volatile("1: INSN_WUSS\n" "2:\n" _ASM_EXTABLE_HANDLE(1b, 2b, ex_handler_wuss) : "=a" (err) : "S" (val), "D" (addr)); But I'm not at all sure that's actually better.