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From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: alexandre.chartre@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	jthierry@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, x86@kernel.org,
	mbenes@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] x86/retpoline: Fix retpoline unwind
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 14:30:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200424193028.tecqlugzzue2n5vj@treble> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200423125043.129313983@infradead.org>

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 02:47:25PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>  .macro CALL_NOSPEC reg:req
>  #ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE
> -	ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE
> -	ALTERNATIVE_2 __stringify(ANNOTATE_RETPOLINE_SAFE; call *%\reg),\
> -		__stringify(RETPOLINE_CALL %\reg), X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE,\
> -		__stringify(lfence; ANNOTATE_RETPOLINE_SAFE; call *%\reg), X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE_AMD
> +	/*
> +	 * This cannot be ALTERNATIVE_2 like with JMP_NOSPEC, because ORC
> +	 * unwind data is alternative invariant and needs stack modifying
> +	 * instructions to be in the same place for all alternatives.
> +	 *
> +	 * IOW the CALL instruction must be at the same offset for all cases.
> +	 */
> +	ALTERNATIVE "", "lfence", X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE_AMD
> +	ALTERNATIVE __stringify(ANNOTATE_RETPOLINE_SAFE; call *%\reg), \
> +		    __stringify(call __x86_retpoline_\reg), X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE

I'm missing why ALTERNATIVE_2 wouldn't work here.  How is the call a
"stack modifying instruction"?  It's not an intra-function call so it
shouldn't affect ORC at all, right?

>  # define CALL_NOSPEC						\
> -	ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE				\
> -	ALTERNATIVE_2(						\
> -	ANNOTATE_RETPOLINE_SAFE					\
> -	"call *%[thunk_target]\n",				\
> -	"call __x86_indirect_thunk_%V[thunk_target]\n",		\
> -	X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE,					\
> -	"lfence;\n"						\
> -	ANNOTATE_RETPOLINE_SAFE					\
> -	"call *%[thunk_target]\n",				\
> -	X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE_AMD)
> +	ALTERNATIVE("", "lfence", X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE_AMD)	\
> +	ALTERNATIVE(ANNOTATE_RETPOLINE_SAFE			\
> +		    "call *%[thunk_target]\n",			\
> +		    "call __x86_indirect_thunk_%V[thunk_target]\n", \
> +		    X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE)
> +

Same.

-- 
Josh


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-04-24 19:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-23 12:47 [PATCH 0/8] objtool vs retpoline Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-23 12:47 ` [PATCH 1/8] objtool: is_fentry_call() crashes if call has no destination Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-23 12:47 ` [PATCH 2/8] objtool: UNWIND_HINT_RET_OFFSET should not check registers Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-23 12:47 ` [PATCH 3/8] objtool: Rework allocating stack_ops on decode Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-23 15:40   ` Alexandre Chartre
2020-04-23 15:54     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-24  7:06       ` Alexandre Chartre
2020-04-23 16:16     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-24  9:43       ` Miroslav Benes
2020-04-23 12:47 ` [PATCH 4/8] objtool: Add support for intra-function calls Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-23 14:34   ` Miroslav Benes
2020-04-23 15:22     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-24  9:37       ` Miroslav Benes
2020-04-24 14:07         ` Miroslav Benes
2020-04-23 12:47 ` [PATCH 5/8] x86/speculation: Change FILL_RETURN_BUFFER to work with objtool Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-23 15:45   ` Alexandre Chartre
2020-04-24 19:04   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-23 12:47 ` [PATCH 6/8] x86: Simplify retpoline declaration Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-24 19:09   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-23 12:47 ` [PATCH 7/8] x86: Change {JMP,CALL}_NOSPEC argument Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-23 12:47 ` [PATCH 8/8] x86/retpoline: Fix retpoline unwind Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-23 12:59   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-24 19:30   ` Josh Poimboeuf [this message]
2020-04-28 18:30     ` Peter Zijlstra

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