[x86/SLH] Tidy up a comment, using doxygen structure and wording it to
be more accurate and understandable.
llvm-svn: 337822
diff --git a/llvm/lib/Target/X86/X86SpeculativeLoadHardening.cpp b/llvm/lib/Target/X86/X86SpeculativeLoadHardening.cpp
index c2453ce..10e1132 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/Target/X86/X86SpeculativeLoadHardening.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Target/X86/X86SpeculativeLoadHardening.cpp
@@ -1866,11 +1866,13 @@
return RC->hasSuperClassEq(GPRRegClasses[Log2_32(RegBytes)]);
}
-// We can harden non-leaking loads into register without touching the address
-// by just hiding all of the loaded bits. We use an `or` instruction to do
-// this because having the poison value be all ones allows us to use the same
-// value below. And the goal is just for the loaded bits to not be exposed to
-// execution and coercing them to one is sufficient.
+/// Harden a load by hardening the loaded value in the defined register.
+///
+/// We can harden a non-leaking load into a register without touching the
+/// address by just hiding all of the loaded bits during misspeculation. We use
+/// an `or` instruction to do this because we set up our poison value as all
+/// ones. And the goal is just for the loaded bits to not be exposed to
+/// execution and coercing them to one is sufficient.
void X86SpeculativeLoadHardeningPass::hardenPostLoad(MachineInstr &MI) {
MachineBasicBlock &MBB = *MI.getParent();
DebugLoc Loc = MI.getDebugLoc();