linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 13/15] x86/static_call: Add inline static call implementation for x86-64

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Message-ID: <40096B8A-C063-4219-89FC-A8E42981BF28@vmware.com>
Date:   Mon, 10 Jun 2019 18:45:52 +0000
From:   Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>
To:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
CC:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
        David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Julia Cartwright <julia@...com>, Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>,
        Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/15] x86/static_call: Add inline static call
 implementation for x86-64

> On Jun 10, 2019, at 11:33 AM, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 03:08:06PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/static_call.h
>> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/static_call.h
>> @@ -2,6 +2,20 @@
>> #ifndef _ASM_STATIC_CALL_H
>> #define _ASM_STATIC_CALL_H
>> 
>> +#include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
>> +
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE
>> +
>> +/*
>> + * This trampoline is only used during boot / module init, so it's safe to use
>> + * the indirect branch without a retpoline.
>> + */
>> +#define __ARCH_STATIC_CALL_TRAMP_JMP(key, func)				\
>> +	ANNOTATE_RETPOLINE_SAFE						\
>> +	"jmpq *" __stringify(key) "+" __stringify(SC_KEY_func) "(%rip) \n"
>> +
>> +#else /* !CONFIG_HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE */
> 
> I wonder if we can simplify this (and drop the indirect branch) by
> getting rid of the above cruft, and instead just use the out-of-line
> trampoline as the default for inline as well.
> 
> Then the inline case could fall back to the out-of-line implementation
> (by patching the trampoline's jmp dest) before static_call_initialized
> is set.

I must be missing some context - but what guarantees that this indirect
branch would be exactly 5 bytes long? Isn’t there an assumption that this
would be the case? Shouldn’t there be some handling of the padding?