linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8.1 12/12] x86/retpoline: Fill return stack buffer on vmexit

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Date:   Fri, 12 Jan 2018 11:21:54 +0000
From:   "Woodhouse, David" <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC:     Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>, Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...gle.com>,
        "Rik van Riel" <riel@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        "Andy Lutomirski" <luto@...capital.net>,
        Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>, <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
        <x86@...nel.org>, <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8.1 12/12] x86/retpoline: Fill return stack buffer on
 vmexit

> On Fri, 2018-01-12 at 12:15 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Fair enough. I surely like the below way more than the sloppy hackery from
> Andi which completely removed any form of documentation.

Be nice. Andi has been extremely helpful in testing and finding corner
cases here, and generally keeping me honest — thanks, Andi.

And I'd have done it *precisely* the same way if you hadn't been
whining on IRC about documenting it. There's a ten-line comment right
above it, saying what it's doing and why. The addition of a couple of
tiny /* speculation trap */ comments inline is really not that much of
a benefit. I just did it to shut you up :)

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