From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_NEOMUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E91E8C43610 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2018 18:37:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B58FD21019 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2018 18:37:20 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org B58FD21019 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727534AbeK3Fni (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2018 00:43:38 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:60504 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726918AbeK3Fnh (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2018 00:43:37 -0500 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A63146EB89; Thu, 29 Nov 2018 18:37:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from treble (ovpn-123-4.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.123.4]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D092D620C8; Thu, 29 Nov 2018 18:37:14 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 12:37:12 -0600 From: Josh Poimboeuf To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Andy Lutomirski , Andy Lutomirski , X86 ML , LKML , Ard Biesheuvel , Steven Rostedt , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Linus Torvalds , Masami Hiramatsu , Jason Baron , Jiri Kosina , David Laight , Borislav Petkov , julia@ni.com, jeyu@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] x86/static_call: Add inline static call implementation for x86-64 Message-ID: <20181129183712.s5eocp5hf4ta4zks@treble> References: <20181126212628.4apztfazichxnt7r@treble> <20181127084330.GX2113@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20181129094210.GC2131@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20181129143853.GO2131@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20181129163342.tp5wlfcyiazwwyoh@treble> <20181129164914.GA9027@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> <0FDA053D-7ADC-4F42-AEA5-99DA155FCED0@amacapital.net> <20181129171539.GD9027@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20181129171539.GD9027@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20180716 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.11 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.25]); Thu, 29 Nov 2018 18:37:19 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 06:15:39PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 08:59:31AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > > If you make it conditional on CPL, do it for 32-bit as well, add > > comments, > > > and convince yourself that there isn’t a better solution > > (like pointing IP at a stub that retpolines to the target by reading > > the function pointer, a la the unoptimizable version), then okay, I > > guess, with only a small amount of grumbling. > > Right; so we _could_ grow the trampoline with a retpoline indirect call > and ret. It just makes the trampoline a whole lot bigger, but it could > work. I'm trying to envision how this would work. How would the function (or stub) know how to return back to the call site? -- Josh