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Message-ID: <20220225022205.yfvpfq5qwpcvrxux@treble>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 18:22:05 -0800
From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, x86@...nel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 20/39] x86/bugs: Disable Retpoline when IBT
On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 05:11:23PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 03:51:58PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Retpoline and IBT are mutually exclusive. IBT relies on indirect
> > branches (JMP/CALL *%reg) while retpoline avoids them by design.
> >
> > Demote to LFENCE on IBT enabled hardware.
>
> What's the expected perf impact of this?
Should make it faster...
--
Josh
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