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Peter Zijlstra
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Current BPF codegen doesn't respect X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE* flags and unconditionally emits a thunk call, this is sub-optimal and doesn't match the regular, compiler generated, code. Update the i386 JIT to emit code equal to what the compiler emits for the regular kernel text (IOW. a plain THUNK call). Update the x86_64 JIT to emit code similar to the result of compiler and kernel rewrites as according to X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE* flags. Inlining RETPOLINE_AMD (lfence; jmp *%reg) and !RETPOLINE (jmp *%reg), while doing a THUNK call for RETPOLINE. This removes the hard-coded retpoline thunks and shrinks the generated code. Leaving a single retpoline thunk definition in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]> Tested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
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