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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 3/4] Revert "x86/retpoline: Simplify vmexit_fill_RSB()"
On Mon, 19 Feb 2018, David Woodhouse wrote:

> This reverts commit 1dde7415e99933bb7293d6b2843752cbdb43ec11. By putting
> the RSB filling out of line and calling it, we waste one RSB slot for
> returning from the function itself, which means one fewer actual function
> call we can make if we're doing the Skylake abomination of call-depth
> counting.
>
> It also changed the number of RSB stuffings we do on vmexit from 32,
> which was correct, to 16. Let's just stop with the bikeshedding; it
> didn't actually *fix* anything anyway.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

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