Re: [PATCH] arm/nospec: Make nospec helpers always_inline

["Alejandro Vallejo" <alejandro.garciavallejo@amd.com>]

On Tue Oct 6, 2026 at 12:51 PM CEST, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 06/10/2026 11:45 am, Orzel, Michal wrote:
> >
> > On 06-Oct-26 12:31, Alejandro Vallejo wrote:
> >> While today they don't implement fencing in a way that would block
> >> speculation, once/if they do they'll absolutely need to be inlined, even
> >> if -fno-inline or -fno-early-inlining are passed.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Vallejo <alejandro.garciavallejo@amd.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@amd.com>
> >
> > but this should be done for Arm, RISCV and PPC at once in which case you can
> > keep my tag for v2 # for Arm.
>
> I previously had a patch series which made this all common, for these
> kinds of reasons.
>
> I think I'd prefer to kick that over the line, than to keep on taking
> micro-bugfixes like this.

for reference:
    https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240304161041.3465897-1-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com/

I wouldn't mind that, I can R-by it if you resend it. I'll still send a
v2 of this on the grounds that it's a strict improvement over existing
matters and might land faster.

Cheers,
Alejandro

>
> ~Andrew