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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, bp@alien8.de, mingo@redhat.com,
	hpa@zytor.com, kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com,
	rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com, x86@kernel.org,
	samitolvanen@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/virt/tdx: Add ENDBR for low level SEAMCALL assembly functions
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2025 07:54:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ae0adccd-25d2-4dd3-b1b9-f7ba0c13367c@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250605142124.GT39944@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On 6/5/25 07:21, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> -static inline u64 sc_retry(sc_func_t func, u64 fn,
> -			   struct tdx_module_args *args)
> +static __always_inline u64 sc_retry(const sc_func_t func, u64 fn,
> +				    struct tdx_module_args *args)
>  {
>  	int retry = RDRAND_RETRY_LOOPS;

Practically, I can see how this works. If the compiler doesn't inline
sc_retry(), it stops being able to guarantee that the function pointer
value is known.

My only worry is that the compiler decides to be stupid for some other
reason, it could start generating indirect calls again.

Are we confident that __always_inline will keep the compiler from
generating indirect calls?

  reply	other threads:[~2025-06-05 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-06-04  0:38 Kai Huang
2025-06-04 19:46 ` Dave Hansen
2025-06-04 23:16   ` Huang, Kai
2025-06-04 23:23     ` Dave Hansen
2025-06-04 23:27       ` Huang, Kai
2025-06-04 23:57         ` Huang, Kai
2025-06-05 13:12   ` Huang, Kai
2025-06-05 13:10 ` [PATCH v2] x86/virt/tdx: Annotate TDX assembly to allow indirect calls Kai Huang
2025-06-05 14:07 ` [PATCH] x86/virt/tdx: Add ENDBR for low level SEAMCALL assembly functions Peter Zijlstra
2025-06-05 14:21   ` Peter Zijlstra
2025-06-05 14:54     ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2025-06-05 14:59       ` Peter Zijlstra
2025-06-05 23:20         ` Huang, Kai
2025-06-05 23:23           ` Dave Hansen

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