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SubjectRe: [PATCH v8 03/12] x86/retpoline: Add initial retpoline support
On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 04:02:19PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 09:46:25PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > +/*
> > + * This should be used immediately before a retpoline alternative. It tells
> > + * objtool where the retpolines are so that it can make sense of the control
> > + * flow by just reading the original instruction(s) and ignoring the
> > + * alternatives.
> > + */
> > +.macro ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE
> > + .Lannotate_\@:
> > + .pushsection .discard.nospec
> > + .long .Lannotate_\@ - .
> > + .popsection
> > +.endm
>
> Hey Josh, what happened to parsing only the retpoline-related
> .altinstructions sections with the X86_FEATURE bits? Or is this
> annotation used for something more additionally?

Yeah, that idea came after this patch was already written. I haven't
implemented it yet.

--
Josh

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