Re: [PATCH 03/24] x86/paravirt: Annotate indirect calls

From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Tue Jan 30 2018 - 11:02:58 EST


On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 08:21:08PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 12:38:50PM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 04:25:42PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > Paravirt emits indirect calls which get flagged by objtool retpoline
> > > checks, annotate it away because all these indirect calls will be
> > > patched out before we start userspace.
> >
> > There's one condition where this isn't true: the 'noreplace-paravirt'
> > cmdline option. I have no idea why that option exists but we should
> > consider just removing it.
>
> Smells like a debug remnant from back when all this patching crap was
> new. And yes, that sounds like something that should maybe go away. Esp.
> for retpoline builds.

Ok, I'll whip up a patch to remove it and see if anybody complains.

--
Josh