linux-kernel - Re: x86-64: Maintain 16-byte stack alignment

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Date:   Thu, 12 Jan 2017 09:18:06 -0600
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: x86-64: Maintain 16-byte stack alignment

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 11:06:50PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 09:03:18AM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > 
> > For the entry code, could we just replace all calls with CALL_ALIGNED?
> > That might be less intrusive than trying to adjust all the pt_regs
> > accesses.
> > 
> > Then to ensure that nobody ever uses 'call' directly:
> > 
> >   '#define call please-use-CALL-ALIGNED-instead-of-call'
> > 
> > I think that would be possible if CALL_ALIGNED were a ".macro".
> 
> The trouble with that is that you have got things like TRACE_IRQS_OFF
> which are also used outside of the entry code.

Where?  As far as I can tell, TRACE_IRQS_OFF is used exclusively by entry
code.

-- 
Josh