Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 4/8] x86/spec_ctrl: Add sysctl knobs to enable/disable SPEC_CTRL feature | Date | Mon, 8 Jan 2018 19:34:00 +0000 | From | "Woodhouse, David" <> |
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On Mon, 2018-01-08 at 18:42 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 09:28:12AM -0800, Tim Chen wrote: > > On 01/08/2018 08:14 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 01:47:07PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > >>> a good suggestion, but we encountered some issues with it either > > >>> crashing the kernel at boot or not properly turning on/off. > > > > > > The below boots, but I lack stuff to test the enabling. > > > > Peter, > > > > Thanks. Will give it a spin. One other concern is if > > JUMP_LABEL is not configured, this may not work, and > > we may still need fall back to a control variable. > > Urgh yes.. I always forget about that case. Will the retpoline crud be > backported to a GCC old enough to not have asm-goto? If not, we could > make all of this simply require asm-goto.
I think HJ said he was planning to backport as far as 4.9. When was asm-goto added?[unhandled content-type:application/x-pkcs7-signature] | |