linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v22 8/8] x86/vdso: Add ENDBR64 to __vdso_sgx_enter

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Message-ID: <afd769ac-dd09-0c1f-1ffa-b8f68f48113f@intel.com>
Date:   Thu, 11 Mar 2021 07:44:39 -0800
From:   "Yu, Yu-cheng" <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v22 8/8] x86/vdso: Add ENDBR64 to __vdso_sgx_enter_enclave

On 3/11/2021 12:42 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 05:36:06AM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
>> Does it do any harm to put it there unconditionally?
> 
> Blows up your text footprint and I$ pressure. These instructions are 4
> bytes each.
> 
> Aside from that, they're a NOP, so only consume front-end resources
> (hopefully) on older CPUs and when IBT is disabled.
> 

Thanks Peter.  I think probably we'll do the macro Boris suggested. 
That takes care of the visual clutter, and eliminates the need of using 
.byte when the assembler is outdated.

--
Yu-cheng