On Mon, 2018-01-29 at 11:58 -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 04:25:42PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > 
> > Paravirt emits indirect calls which get flagged by objtool
> > retpoline
> > checks, annotate it away because all these indirect calls will be
> > patched out before we start userspace.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h       |   22 ++++++++++++++++++---
> > -
> >  arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h |    7 ++++++-
> >  2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > 
> > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
> > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
> > @@ -828,6 +828,12 @@ extern void default_banner(void);
> >  	 .short clobbers;			\
> >  	.popsection
> >  
> > +#define PARA_RETPOLINE_SAFE				\
> > +	773:;						\
> > +	.pushsection .discard.retpoline_safe;		\
> > +	_ASM_PTR 773b;					\
> > +	.popsection
>
> Why does paravirt have its own version of this macro?

Because otherwise we'd only have two, and they might get lonely?