From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
tglx@linutronix.de, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
gregkh@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/12] retpoline/objtool: Disable some objtool warnings
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 07:59:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180104155914.GL25156@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180104143814.bhvtsjiwpyhtgjph@treble>
> NAK. We can't blindly disable objtool warnings, that will break
> livepatch and the ORC unwinder. If you share a .o file (or the GCC
> code) I can look at adding retpoline support.
I don't think we can wait for that. We can disable livepatch and the
unwinder for now. They are not essential. Frame pointers should work
well enough for unwinding and afaik nobody can use livepatch in mainline anyways.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-04 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-04 2:00 Avoid speculative indirect calls in kernel Andi Kleen
2018-01-04 2:00 ` [PATCH v2 01/12] x86/retpoline: Define retpoline indirect thunk and macros Andi Kleen
2018-01-04 2:15 ` Brian Gerst
2018-01-04 2:32 ` Alan Cox
2018-01-04 2:00 ` [PATCH v2 02/12] x86/retpoline/crypto: Convert crypto assembler indirect jumps Andi Kleen
2018-01-04 2:00 ` [PATCH v2 03/12] x86/retpoline/entry: Convert entry " Andi Kleen
2018-01-04 8:42 ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-04 2:00 ` [PATCH v2 04/12] x86/retpoline/ftrace: Convert ftrace " Andi Kleen
2018-01-04 2:00 ` [PATCH v2 05/12] x86/retpoline/hyperv: Convert " Andi Kleen
2018-01-04 2:00 ` [PATCH v2 06/12] x86/retpoline/crypto: Convert xen " Andi Kleen
2018-01-04 6:48 ` Juergen Gross
2018-01-04 6:50 ` Andi Kleen
2018-01-04 2:00 ` [PATCH v2 07/12] x86/retpoline/checksum32: Convert " Andi Kleen
2018-01-04 2:00 ` [PATCH v2 08/12] x86/retpoline/irq32: " Andi Kleen
2018-01-04 2:00 ` [PATCH v2 09/12] x86/retpoline: Finally enable retpoline for C code Andi Kleen
2018-01-04 2:00 ` [PATCH v2 10/12] retpoline/taint: Taint kernel for missing retpoline in compiler Andi Kleen
2018-01-04 2:00 ` [PATCH v2 11/12] retpoline/objtool: Disable some objtool warnings Andi Kleen
2018-01-04 14:38 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-01-04 14:46 ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-04 15:59 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2018-01-04 16:06 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-01-04 16:13 ` Andi Kleen
2018-01-04 16:32 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-01-04 17:35 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-01-04 2:00 ` [PATCH v2 12/12] retpoline: Attempt to quiten objtool warning for unreachable code Andi Kleen
2018-01-04 11:49 ` Avoid speculative indirect calls in kernel Pavel Machek
2018-01-04 12:09 ` Alan Cox
2018-01-04 13:32 ` Pavel Machek
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