Re: [GIT PULL] x86/urgent for v5.11-rc7

[Dave Hansen]

On 2/7/21 12:44 PM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
>>> It probably is an item on some Intel manager's to-enable list. So far,
>>> the CET enablement concentrates only on userspace but dhansen might know
>>> more about future plans. CCed.
>> It's definitely on our radar to look at after CET userspace.
> What is the desired timeline to enable CET in the kernel ?
> I think for bpf and tracing it will be mostly straightforward to deal
> with extra endbr64 insn in front of the fentry nop.
> Just trying to figure when this work needs to be done.

Yu-cheng?  Any idea when you're going to start hacking on the in-kernel
IBT bits?