From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>,
Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
Arjan Van De Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>,
Asit Mallick <asit.k.mallick@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/8] objtool: Retpoline validation tweaks
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 12:57:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1518440260.6606.58.camel@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180212125033.448828374@infradead.org>
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On Mon, 2018-02-12 at 13:48 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -486,6 +486,11 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(CLANG_TARGET) $(CLANG
> KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(CLANG_TARGET) $(CLANG_GCC_TC)
> endif
>
> +ifneq ($(call cc-option,-mindirect-branch=thunk-extern -mindirect-branch-register),)
> + CC_HAS_RETPOLINE := 1
> +endif
> +export CC_HAS_RETPOLINE
Can't you do that with the existing check in arch/x86/Makefile?
cf. http://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/linux-retpoline.git/commitdiff/eb12299ed
which is going nowhere until https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36329
gets fixed but still I'd like to have the check in *one* place.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-12 12:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-12 12:48 [PATCH v2 0/8] objtool: retpoline validation Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-12 12:48 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] objtool: Use existing global variables for options Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-12 12:48 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] objtool: Add retpoline validation Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-12 12:48 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] objtool: Add module specific retpoline rules Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-12 13:01 ` David Woodhouse
2018-02-12 13:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-12 12:48 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] objtool: Retpoline validation tweaks Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-12 12:57 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2018-02-12 14:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-12 12:49 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] x86,nospec: Annotate indirect calls/jumps Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-12 12:49 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] x86/paravirt: Annotate indirect calls Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-12 12:49 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] x86: Annotate indirect jump in head_64.S Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-12 12:49 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] x86,sme: Annotate indirect call Peter Zijlstra
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