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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Li, Xin3" <xin3.li@intel.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"mingo@redhat.com" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"bp@alien8.de" <bp@alien8.de>,
	"dave.hansen@linux.intel.com" <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 6/6] x86/gsseg: use the LKGS instruction if available for load_gs_index()
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2022 11:49:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F0DCCD0-2179-47E2-BC57-A948C0C91098@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BN6PR1101MB216170B28962901E72C539BDA85F9@BN6PR1101MB2161.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>

On October 7, 2022 11:07:34 AM PDT, "Li, Xin3" <xin3.li@intel.com> wrote:
>> >> +	alternative_io("1: call asm_load_gs_index\n"
>> >> +		       ".pushsection \".fixup\",\"ax\"\n"
>> >> +		       "2:	xorl %k[sel], %k[sel]\n"
>> >> +		       "	jmp 1b\n"
>> >> +		       ".popsection\n"
>> >> +		       _ASM_EXTABLE(1b, 2b),
>> >> +		       _ASM_BYTES(0x3e) LKGS_DI,
>> >> +		       X86_FEATURE_LKGS,
>> >> +		       ASM_OUTPUT2([sel] "+D" (sel), ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT),
>> >> +		       ASM_NO_INPUT_CLOBBER(_ASM_AX));
>> >>  }
>> >
>> >I'm very sure none of this was tested... the .fixup section hasn't
>> >existed for almost a year now.
>> >
>> >  e5eefda5aa51 ("x86: Remove .fixup section")
>> 
>> Xin, what did you use as the forward-porting baseline?
>
>6.0 release, and my kernel dump shows me a fixup section is there, and a fixup section is created anyway if we do "pushsection "\.fixup\"".
>
>
>

Yeah. .fixup is really Just Another Text Section ™, so it is probably not surprising if it has crept back in.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-07 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-06 15:40 [PATCH 0/6] Enable LKGS instruction Xin Li
2022-10-06 15:40 ` [PATCH 1/6] x86/cpufeature: add cpu feature bit for LKGS Xin Li
2022-10-06 15:40 ` [PATCH 2/6] x86/opcode: add LKGS instruction to x86-opcode-map Xin Li
2022-10-06 15:40 ` [PATCH 3/6] x86/gsseg: make asm_load_gs_index() take an u16 Xin Li
2022-10-06 15:40 ` [PATCH 4/6] x86/gsseg: move local_irq_save/restore() into asm_load_gs_index() Xin Li
2022-10-07 14:50   ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-10-07 17:47     ` H. Peter Anvin
2022-10-06 15:40 ` [PATCH 5/6] x86/gsseg: move load_gs_index() to its own header file Xin Li
2022-10-07 15:40   ` Brian Gerst
2022-10-07 17:43     ` H. Peter Anvin
2022-10-07 22:41       ` Li, Xin3
2022-10-06 15:40 ` [PATCH 6/6] x86/gsseg: use the LKGS instruction if available for load_gs_index() Xin Li
2022-10-07 14:47   ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-10-07 17:45     ` H. Peter Anvin
2022-10-07 18:07       ` Li, Xin3
2022-10-07 18:49         ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2022-10-07 18:01     ` Li, Xin3
2022-10-07 19:24       ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-10-07 20:03         ` H. Peter Anvin
2022-10-07 20:23           ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-10-07 20:33             ` H. Peter Anvin
2022-10-08  5:32               ` Li, Xin3
2022-10-08  7:16                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2022-10-10  4:21                   ` Li, Xin3
2022-10-14  4:36               ` Li, Xin3
2022-10-07 14:52   ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-10-07 15:09   ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-10-08  5:31     ` Li, Xin3
2022-10-07 16:18   ` Brian Gerst
2022-10-08  5:40     ` Li, Xin3
2022-10-08 12:40       ` Brian Gerst
2022-10-10  4:32         ` Li, Xin3
2022-10-10  4:51           ` H. Peter Anvin
2022-10-10  7:53           ` Peter Zijlstra

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