From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/17] KVM: retpolines: x86: eliminate retpoline from vmx.c exit handlers
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 18:53:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <24dc5c23-eed8-22db-fd15-5a165a67e747@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190923163746.GE18195@linux.intel.com>
On 23/09/19 18:37, Sean Christopherson wrote:
>> Would it be too much if we get rid of
>> kvm_vmx_exit_handlers completely replacing this code with one switch()?
> Hmm, that'd require redirects for nVMX functions since they are set at
> runtime. That isn't necessarily a bad thing. The approach could also be
> used if Paolo's idea of making kvm_vmx_max_exit_handlers const allows the
> compiler to avoid retpoline.
But aren't switch statements also retpolin-ized if they use a jump table?
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-23 16:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-20 21:24 [PATCH 00/17] KVM monolithic v1 Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 01/17] x86: spec_ctrl: fix SPEC_CTRL initialization after kexec Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 10:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-23 15:30 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-23 17:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 22:27 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 02/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: convert the kvm_x86_ops methods to external functions Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 10:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-23 16:13 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-23 16:51 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-23 19:21 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 03/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: handle the request_immediate_exit variation Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 22:35 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-23 23:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 23:45 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-24 0:24 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 04/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: convert the kvm_pmu_ops methods to external functions Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 05/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: enable the kvm_x86_ops " Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 06/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: enable the kvm_pmu_ops " Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 07/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: adjust the section prefixes Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 10:15 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-25 12:13 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-25 12:32 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 08/17] KVM: monolithic: adjust the section prefixes in the KVM common code Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 09/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: remove kvm.ko Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 10/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: use the external functions instead of kvm_x86_ops Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 10:02 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 11/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: remove exports Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 12/17] KVM: monolithic: remove exports from KVM common code Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 13/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: drop the kvm_pmu_ops structure Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 10:21 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-24 0:51 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-24 1:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 14/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: inline more exit handlers in vmx.c Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 10:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-24 1:00 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-24 1:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-24 1:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-24 2:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-25 7:52 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 15/17] KVM: retpolines: x86: eliminate retpoline from vmx.c exit handlers Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 9:31 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2019-09-23 9:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-23 19:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 20:23 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-23 21:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 21:24 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-23 23:43 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 23:52 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-24 0:16 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-24 0:35 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-24 0:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-24 0:15 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-24 0:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-24 0:46 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-24 21:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-25 7:50 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-23 16:37 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-23 16:53 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2019-09-23 17:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 18:15 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-23 19:12 ` Andrea Arcangeli
[not found] ` <E8FE7592-69C3-455E-8D80-A2D73BB2E14C@dinechin.org>
2019-09-25 20:51 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 16:28 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 16/17] KVM: retpolines: x86: eliminate retpoline from svm.c " Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 10:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 17/17] x86: retpolines: eliminate retpoline from msr event handlers Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 15:39 ` [PATCH 00/17] KVM monolithic v1 Sean Christopherson
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