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From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] objtool: Ignore retpoline alternatives
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On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 04:27:38PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-01-10 at 19:48 -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > 
> > +#define ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE                            \
> > +       "999:\n\t"                                              \
> > +       ".pushsection .discard.nospec\n\t"                      \
> > +       ".long 999b - .\n\t"                                    \
> > +       ".popsection\n\t"
> > +
> 
> <mode name="peterz">
>   Ick, numbers. Use .Lfoo_%= instead.
> </mode>

I seem to recall that not working with inline asm, maybe old versions of
GCC don't like it or something?  I can try it and see if 0-day bot
complains.

-- 
Josh