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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: Remaining randconfig objtool warnings, linux-next-20200428
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 23:55:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200428215554.GA16027@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200428203855.zapf6jhcp6mbft7i@treble>

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 03:38:55PM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> This one makes no sense to me.  It looks like the assembler is inserting
> a jump as part of the alignment padding???  WTH.
> 
> 0000000000000980 <common_spurious>:
>      980:	48 83 04 24 80       	addq   $0xffffffffffffff80,(%rsp)
>      985:	e8 00 00 00 00       	callq  98a <common_spurious+0xa>
> 			986: R_X86_64_PLT32	interrupt_entry-0x4
>      98a:	e8 00 00 00 00       	callq  98f <common_spurious+0xf>
> 			98b: R_X86_64_PLT32	smp_spurious_interrupt-0x4
>      98f:	eb 7e                	jmp    a0f <ret_from_intr>
>      991:	eb 6d                	jmp    a00 <common_interrupt>
>      993:	66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 	data16 nopw %cs:0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
>      99a:	00 00 00 00 
>      99e:	66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 	data16 nopw %cs:0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
>      9a5:	00 00 00 00 
>      9a9:	66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 	data16 nopw %cs:0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
>      9b0:	00 00 00 00 
>      9b4:	66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 	data16 nopw %cs:0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
>      9bb:	00 00 00 00 
>      9bf:	66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 	data16 nopw %cs:0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
>      9c6:	00 00 00 00 
>      9ca:	66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 	data16 nopw %cs:0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
>      9d1:	00 00 00 00 
>      9d5:	66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 	data16 nopw %cs:0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
>      9dc:	00 00 00 00 
>      9e0:	66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 	data16 nopw %cs:0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
>      9e7:	00 00 00 00 
>      9eb:	66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 	data16 nopw %cs:0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
>      9f2:	00 00 00 00 
>      9f6:	66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 	nopw   %cs:0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
>      9fd:	00 00 00 

binutils.git/gas/configure/tc-i386.c:i386_generate_nops

When there's too many NOPs (as here) it generates a JMP across the NOPS.
It makes some sort of sense, at some point executing NOPs is going to be
more expensive than a branch.. But shees..

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-28 21:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-28 14:49 Remaining randconfig objtool warnings, linux-next-20200428 Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-28 16:10 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-28 19:11   ` Kees Cook
2020-04-28 20:19   ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-28 20:38     ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-28 21:55       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2020-04-28 22:03         ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-28 22:33           ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-28 22:48             ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-28 23:08               ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-29 18:55   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-29 22:46     ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-29 23:01       ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-29 23:11       ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-29 23:28         ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-30 13:41           ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-30 14:33             ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-30 19:46               ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-30 20:59                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-30 21:10                   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-30 21:08                 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-30 23:02                   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-29 19:18   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-05-01 12:23     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-30 14:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-05-01  0:28   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-05-01 11:41     ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-05-01 17:16       ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-05-01 12:27     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-05-01  1:07   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-05-01 11:18     ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-05-01 12:33     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-05-01 13:08       ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-05-01 15:49       ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-05-01 17:21   ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-05-01 17:26     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-05-01 17:50       ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-05-01 19:47         ` Arnd Bergmann

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