Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/6] objtool,x86: Rewrite retpoline thunk calls
From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Fri Feb 19 2021 - 19:43:13 EST
On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 11:01:58PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> We could, but it so happens Joerg is also wanting negative features.
Juergen.
> So I was thikning that perhaps we can convince Boris they're not
> really all that aweful after all :-)
Well, I'm not crazy about this, TBH - I totally agree with Josh:
"with objtool generating code, it's going to be a maze to figure out
where the generated code is coming from"
and without a real good reason to do this, what's the point? I know,
because we can. :-)
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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