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Commit 3b6c1747 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra
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x86/retpoline: Add SKL retthunk retpolines



Ensure that retpolines do the proper call accounting so that the return
accounting works correctly.

Specifically; retpolines are used to replace both 'jmp *%reg' and
'call *%reg', however these two cases do not have the same accounting
requirements. Therefore split things up and provide two different
retpoline arrays for SKL.

The 'jmp *%reg' case needs no accounting, the
__x86_indirect_jump_thunk_array[] covers this. The retpoline is
changed to not use the return thunk; it's a simple call;ret construct.

[ strictly speaking it should do:
	andq $(~0x1f), PER_CPU_VAR(__x86_call_depth)
  but we can argue this can be covered by the fuzz we already have
  in the accounting depth (12) vs the RSB depth (16) ]

The 'call *%reg' case does need accounting, the
__x86_indirect_call_thunk_array[] covers this. Again, this retpoline
avoids the use of the return-thunk, in this case to avoid double
accounting.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220915111147.996634749@infradead.org
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