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SubjectRe: [PATCH v22 8/8] x86/vdso: Add ENDBR64 to __vdso_sgx_enter_enclave
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On 3/11/2021 12:42 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 05:36:06AM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
>> Does it do any harm to put it there unconditionally?
>
> Blows up your text footprint and I$ pressure. These instructions are 4
> bytes each.
>
> Aside from that, they're a NOP, so only consume front-end resources
> (hopefully) on older CPUs and when IBT is disabled.
>

Thanks Peter. I think probably we'll do the macro Boris suggested.
That takes care of the visual clutter, and eliminates the need of using
.byte when the assembler is outdated.

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Yu-cheng

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