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Message-ID: <20200120145401.GB14897@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 15:54:01 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Julien Thierry <jthierry@...hat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
jpoimboe@...hat.com, raphael.gault@....com,
catalin.marinas@....com, will@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v5 11/57] objtool: Abstract alternative special case
handling
On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 04:02:14PM +0000, Julien Thierry wrote:
> diff --git a/tools/objtool/arch/x86/arch_special.c b/tools/objtool/arch/x86/arch_special.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..6dba31f419d0
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/objtool/arch/x86/arch_special.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
> +#include "../../special.h"
> +#include "../../builtin.h"
> +
> +void arch_handle_alternative(unsigned short feature, struct special_alt *alt)
> +{
> + /*
> + * If UACCESS validation is enabled; force that alternative;
> + * otherwise force it the other way.
> + *
> + * What we want to avoid is having both the original and the
> + * alternative code flow at the same time, in that case we can
> + * find paths that see the STAC but take the NOP instead of
> + * CLAC and the other way around.
> + */
That comment ^,
> + switch (feature) {
> + case X86_FEATURE_SMAP:
goes here >
> + if (uaccess)
> + alt->skip_orig = true;
> + else
> + alt->skip_alt = true;
> + break;
> + case X86_FEATURE_POPCNT:
> + /*
> + * It has been requested that we don't validate the !POPCNT
> + * feature path which is a "very very small percentage of
> + * machines".
> + */
> + alt->skip_orig = true;
> + break;
> + default:
> + break;
> + }
> +}
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