linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/20] x86/uaccess/xen: Suppress SMAP warnings

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Date:   Mon, 11 Mar 2019 12:59:29 -0500
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com,
        julien.thierry@....com, will.deacon@....com, luto@...capital.net,
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        bp@...en8.de, dvlasenk@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        dvyukov@...gle.com, rostedt@...dmis.org, andrew.cooper3@...rix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/20] x86/uaccess/xen: Suppress SMAP warnings

On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 02:19:29PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 01:03:34PM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 01:00:38PM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 12:45:16PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> > > > XXX: arguably we should rename ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE to
> > > >      ANNOTATE_IGNORE_ALTERNATIVE.
> 
> > Also this you could get rid of the comment if there were an
> > ANNOTATE_AC_SAFE macro which does a similar thing.
> 
> How about we just rename the one annotation we have? I figured it was a
> waste of LoC to do yet another annotation that does the very same thing.

I think ANNOTATE_IGNORE_ALTERNATIVE would hurt readability too.  How
about just

  #define ANNOTATE_UACCESS_SAFE ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE

or, make both ANNOTATE_UACCESS_SAFE and ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE
defined to the same OBJTOOL_IGNORE_ALTERNATIVE macro.

-- 
Josh