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Peter Anvin" , Boris Ostrovsky , Wei Liu , Stefano Stabellini , Stephen Hemminger , Joerg Roedel , x86@kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Mel Gorman , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, Haiyang Zhang , Steven Rostedt , Borislav Petkov , luto@kernel.org, Vincent Guittot , Thomas Gleixner , Dietmar Eggemann , Jim Mattson , =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen_Gro=DF?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sean Christopherson , Paolo Bonzini , Daniel Bristot de Oliveira X-BeenThere: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux virtualization List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Sender: "Virtualization" On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 10:56:05AM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 09:40:59AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > Could we make it easier by caching the shared > > > per-alt-group CFI state somewhere along the way? > > > > Yes, but when I tried it grew the code required. Runtime costs would be > > less, but I figured that since alternatives are typically few and small, > > that wasn't a real consideration. > > Aren't alternatives going to be everywhere now with paravirt using them? What I meant was, they're either 2-3 wide and only a few instructions long. Which greatly bounds the actual complexity of the algorithm, however daft. > > No real objection, I just didn't do it because 1) it works, and 2) even > > moar lines. > > I'm kind of surprised it would need moar lines. Let me play around with > it and maybe I'll come around ;-) Please do, it could be getting all the niggly bits right exhausted my brain enough to miss the obvious ;-) _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization