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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: "Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Linux List Kernel Mailing" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Björn Töpel" <bjorn.topel@intel.com>,
	"Magnus Karlsson" <magnus.karlsson@intel.com>,
	"Jesper Dangaard Brouer" <brouer@redhat.com>,
	"Alexei Starovoitov" <ast@kernel.org>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	"Andy Lutomirski" <luto@kernel.org>,
	"Borislav Petkov" <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, retpolines: raise limit for generating indirect calls from switch-case
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 14:27:49 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wgNfnC-oe7aJGgNWoTbssc0LPYK6FyR=6LO4_U_dsphbg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190221221941.29358-1-daniel@iogearbox.net>

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 2:20 PM Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> wrote:
>
> In case of gcc, this setting is controlled by case-values-threshold
> which has an architecture global default that selects 4 or 5 (

Ack. For retpoline, that's much too low.

Patch looks sane, although it would be good to verify just which
versions of gcc this works for. All versions with retpoline?

                        Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-21 22:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-21 22:19 [PATCH] x86, retpolines: raise limit for generating indirect calls from switch-case Daniel Borkmann
2019-02-21 22:27 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2019-02-21 22:56   ` Daniel Borkmann
2019-02-22  7:31 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2019-02-26 18:20   ` Björn Töpel
2019-02-28 11:12 ` [tip:x86/build] x86, retpolines: Raise " tip-bot for Daniel Borkmann
2019-02-28 11:27   ` David Woodhouse
2019-02-28 12:53     ` H.J. Lu
2019-02-28 16:18       ` Daniel Borkmann
2019-02-28 16:25         ` H.J. Lu
2019-02-28 17:58           ` Daniel Borkmann
2019-02-28 18:09             ` H.J. Lu
2019-02-28 18:13               ` Daniel Borkmann

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