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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/asm changes for v5.6
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 18:39:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200130173910.GK6684@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wje_k92K6j0-=HH4F5Jmr8Fv7vB-ANObqbQeGS_RsikWA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 07:27:28AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Fair enough. Let's not complicate things just to avoid a few nops.

Yeah, judging by the frequency this keeps popping up, we might end up
doing proper insn parsing for the alternatives soon. :)

> That does make me wonder about RIP-relative addressing in alternatives
> too. Particularly anything where we let gcc pick addressing modes. I
> guess we don't have any, but maybe this branch issue and possible RIP
> addressing is something that objtool could be taught to warn about?

Yeah, makes sense. It would help if one slaps a relative JMP as *not*
the first insn in an alternatives replacement and the build to warn that
it can't work. Lemme go stare at objtool.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-30 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-28 16:59 [GIT PULL] x86/asm changes for v5.6 Ingo Molnar
2020-01-28 19:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-01-28 20:06   ` Linus Torvalds
2020-01-28 20:14     ` Ingo Molnar
2020-01-28 20:41     ` Luck, Tony
2020-01-28 21:04       ` Linus Torvalds
2020-01-28 22:31         ` Borislav Petkov
2020-01-29 18:00           ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-01-29 13:26     ` Borislav Petkov
2020-01-29 17:07       ` Luck, Tony
2020-01-29 17:40         ` Linus Torvalds
2020-01-29 18:34           ` Borislav Petkov
2020-01-29 18:56             ` Linus Torvalds
2020-01-30  8:51               ` Borislav Petkov
2020-01-30 15:27                 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-01-30 17:39                   ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2020-01-30 18:02                     ` Linus Torvalds
2020-01-31 14:27                       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-01-31 16:05                         ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-01-29 19:42             ` Luck, Tony
2020-01-30  5:47             ` Damian Tometzki
2020-01-30  7:55               ` Borislav Petkov
2020-01-30 11:10                 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-01-30 11:53                   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-01-30 11:59                     ` Mike Rapoport
2020-01-30 12:06                       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-01-30 16:45                         ` Damian Tometzki
2020-01-30 17:39                           ` Borislav Petkov
2020-01-28 21:15 ` pr-tracker-bot

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