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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 20/39] x86/bugs: Disable Retpoline when IBT
On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 05:11:23PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 03:51:58PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Retpoline and IBT are mutually exclusive. IBT relies on indirect
> > branches (JMP/CALL *%reg) while retpoline avoids them by design.
> >
> > Demote to LFENCE on IBT enabled hardware.
>
> What's the expected perf impact of this?

Should make it faster...

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Josh

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