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

From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Mon Jan 29 2018 - 13:38:58 EST


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.

--
Josh