From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>, Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linux-foundation.org>,
Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>,
One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 05/12] x86/retpoline/ftrace: Convert ftrace assembler indirect jumps
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 17:27:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFwV45NpYdjGZQ_FCvvdvxWYDEwV_Qosvyxi4UbhupWOrQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1801062050470.2376@nanos>
On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 11:53 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Jan 2018, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>>
>> [ Goes off and looks ]
>>
>> Oh. The AMD lfence version wants a register. Oh well.
>
> The register load could be put into the macro itself, though we need to
> supply a scratch register
Yeah, not worth it I suspect. I guess we can live with the register version.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-07 1:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-06 11:49 [PATCH v5 00/12] Retpoline: Avoid speculative indirect calls in kernel David Woodhouse
2018-01-06 11:49 ` [PATCH v5 01/12] x86/spectre: Add X86_BUG_SPECTRE_V[12] David Woodhouse
2018-01-06 21:05 ` [tip:x86/pti] x86/cpufeatures: " tip-bot for David Woodhouse
2018-01-06 11:49 ` [PATCH v5 02/12] x86/retpoline: Add initial retpoline support David Woodhouse
2018-01-06 17:32 ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-06 18:05 ` [PATCH v5.1 " David Woodhouse
2018-01-06 18:35 ` [PATCH v5 " Eric Biggers
2018-01-06 19:17 ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-06 21:16 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-01-06 21:21 ` Woodhouse, David
2018-01-07 1:44 ` Tom Lendacky
2018-01-06 21:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-06 21:34 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-01-06 21:49 ` Woodhouse, David
2018-01-06 11:49 ` [PATCH v5 03/12] x86/retpoline/crypto: Convert crypto assembler indirect jumps David Woodhouse
2018-01-06 11:49 ` [PATCH v5 04/12] x86/retpoline/entry: Convert entry " David Woodhouse
2018-01-06 11:49 ` [PATCH v5 05/12] x86/retpoline/ftrace: Convert ftrace " David Woodhouse
2018-01-06 18:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-06 19:53 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-07 1:27 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2018-01-06 11:49 ` [PATCH v5 06/12] x86/retpoline/hyperv: Convert " David Woodhouse
2018-01-06 11:49 ` [PATCH v5 07/12] x86/retpoline/xen: Convert Xen hypercall " David Woodhouse
2018-01-06 11:49 ` [PATCH v5 08/12] x86/retpoline/checksum32: Convert assembler " David Woodhouse
2018-01-06 11:49 ` [PATCH v5 09/12] x86/retpoline/irq32: " David Woodhouse
2018-01-06 11:49 ` [PATCH v5 10/12] x86/retpoline: Add boot time option to disable retpoline David Woodhouse
2018-01-06 11:49 ` [PATCH v5 11/12] x86/retpoline: Exclude objtool with retpoline David Woodhouse
2018-01-06 11:49 ` [PATCH v5 12/12] retpoline/modpost: Quieten MODVERSION retpoline build David Woodhouse
2018-01-07 0:10 ` [RFC PATCH 13/12] Retpoline vs. CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_SYMBOLS David Woodhouse
2018-01-07 8:03 ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-07 15:09 ` Lu, Hongjiu
2018-01-07 17:32 ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-07 17:57 ` Lu, Hongjiu
2018-01-07 18:18 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-07 18:32 ` Lu, Hongjiu
2018-01-07 20:57 ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-07 22:16 ` David Woodhouse
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