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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 00/16] x86,objtool: Optimize !RETPOLINE
On Fri, 26 Mar 2021, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> Hi, another week, another update :-)
>
> Respin of the !RETPOLINE optimization patches.
>
> Boris, the first 3 should probably go into tip/x86/core, it's an ungodly tangle
> since it relies on the insn decoder patches in tip/x86/core, the NOP patches in
> tip/x86/cpu and the alternative patches in tip/x86/alternatives.
>
> Just to make life easy I'd suggest merging everything in x86/core and
> forgetting about the other topic branches (that's what I ended up doing locally).
>
> The remaining 13 patches depend on the first 3 as well as on the work in
> tip/objtool/core, just to make life more interesting still ;-)
>
> All except the last 4 patches should be fairly uncontroversial (I hope...).
>
> There's a fair number of new patches and another few have been completely
> rewritten, but it all seems to work nicely.

Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>

for the objtool changes. All looks much better in this version.

I have only one minor thing. There are only two call sites of
elf_add_string(). The one in elf_create_section() passes shstrtab, the
other one in elf_create_undef_symbol() NULL. elf_add_string() then
retrieves it itself. I think it would be nicer to just call
find_section_by_name() in elf_create_undef_symbol(), pass it down and make
it consistent. Might be a matter of taste.

Miroslav

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