Re: [PATCH V2 9/9] x86/speculation: Remove all ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE directives

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 06:18:51PM +0200, Alexandre Chartre wrote:
> 
> On 4/7/20 4:32 PM, Alexandre Chartre wrote:
> > 
> > On 4/7/20 3:34 PM, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 03:28:37PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > > Josh, we should probably have objtool verify it doesn't emit ORC entries
> > > > in alternative ranges.
> > > 
> > > Agreed, it might be as simple as checking for insn->alt_group in the
> > > INSN_STACK check or in update_insn_state().
> > > 
> > 
> > We could do that only for the "objtool orc generate" command. That way
> > "objtool check" would still check the alternative, but "objtool orc generate"
> > will just use the first half of the alternative (like it does today with
> > ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE). We can even keep all ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE
> > but only use them for "objtool orc generate".
> > 
> 
> I have checked and objtool doesn't emit ORC entries for alternative:
> decode_instructions() doesn't mark such section with sec->text = true
> so create_orc_sections() doesn't emit corresponding ORC entries.
> 
> So I think we can remove the ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE directives,
> this will allow objtool to check the instructions but it still won't
> emit ORC entries (same behavior as today). In the future, if ORC
> eventually supports alternative we will be ready to have objtool emit
> ORC entries.

I mean, we should make it warn for the case where you remove
ANNOTATE_NOSPEC and it would like to generate ORC.

Also, what's the point of having objtool grok this code and then not
doing anything with it?