Re: [PATCH v2] x86/speculation: Simplify and make CALL_NOSPEC consistent

[Ingo Molnar]

* Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> CALL_NOSPEC macro is used to generate Spectre-v2 mitigation friendly
> indirect branches. At compile time the macro defaults to indirect branch,
> and at runtime those can be patched to thunk based mitigations.
>
> This approach is opposite of what is done for the rest of the kernel, where
> the compile time default is to replace indirect calls with retpoline thunk
> calls.
> 
> Make CALL_NOSPEC consistent with the rest of the kernel, default to
> retpoline thunk at compile time when CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE is
> enabled.
> 
> Also add the missing __CS_PREFIX to the CALL_NOSPEC macro to make it
> compatible with -mindirect-branch-cs-prefix.

The __CS_PREFIX change should probably be a separate patch.

Thanks,

	Ingo