linux-kernel - Re: Kernel broken on processors without performance counters

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Message-ID: <55B12570.4070709@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 23 Jul 2015 13:33:36 -0400
From:	Jason Baron <jasonbaron0@...il.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
CC:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Vince Weaver <vince@...ter.net>,
	"hillf.zj" <hillf.zj@...baba-inc.com>,
	Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel broken on processors without performance counters

On 07/23/2015 01:08 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 11:34:50AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 12:42:15 +0200
>> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
>>
>>> static __always_inline bool arch_static_branch_jump(struct static_key *key, bool inv)
>>> {
>>> 	if (!inv) {
>>> 		asm_volatile_goto("1:"
>>> 			"jmp %l[l_yes]\n\t"
>> And what happens when this gets converted to a two byte jump?
>>
> That would be bad, how can we force it to emit 5 bytes?
hmm....I don't think that's an issue, the patching code can
detect if its a 2-byte jump - 0xeb, or 5-byte: 0xe9, and do
the correct no-op. Same going the other way. See the code
I posted a few mails back. In fact, this gets us to the
smaller 2-byte no-ops in cases where we are initialized
to jump.

Thanks,

-Jason
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