Re: [PATCH v2] x86/cpufeature: guard asm_volatile_goto usage with NO_BPF_WORKAROUND

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Apr 20 2018 - 04:19:49 EST


On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 09:27:38PM -0700, Yonghong Song wrote:

> This patch adds a preprocessor guard NO_BPF_WORKAROUND around the
> asm_volatile_goto based static_cpu_has(). NO_BPF_WORKAROUND is set
> at toplevel Makefile when compiler supports asm-goto. That is,
> if the compiler supports asm-goto, the kernel build will use
> asm-goto version of static_cpu_has().

Hurm, so adding __BPF__ for BPF compiles isn't an option? It seems to me
having a CPP flag to identify BPF compile context might be useful in
general.