Re: [PATCH 2/4] arm64: implement support for static call trampolines

[Mark Rutland]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 11:06:11AM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: Mark Rutland
> > Sent: 26 October 2021 11:37
> ...
> > My preference overall is to keep the trampoline self-contained, and I'd
> > prefer to keep the RET inline in the trampoline rather than trying to
> > factor it out so that all the control-flow is clearly in one place.
> > 
> > So I'd prefer that we have the sequence as-is:
> > 
> > | 0:	.quad 0x0
> > | 	bti	c
> > | 	< insn >
> > | 	ldr	x16, 0b
> > | 	cbz	x16, 1f
> > | 	br	x16
> > | 1:	ret
> 
> What is wrong with:
> 0:	.quad 1f
> 	bti	c
> 	< insn >
> 	ldr	x16, 0b
> 	br	x16
> 1:	bti	c
> 	ret
> 
> Self-contained and reasonably easy to read.

FWIW, that would work for me too.

Thanks,
Mark.