x86/alternative: Try inline spectre_v2=retpoline,amd
Try and replace retpoline thunk calls with: LFENCE CALL *%\reg for spectre_v2=retpoline,amd. Specifically, the sequence above is 5 bytes for the low 8 registers, but 6 bytes for the high 8 registers. This means that unless the compilers prefix stuff the call with higher registers this replacement will fail. Luckily GCC strongly favours RAX for the indirect calls and most (95%+ for defconfig-x86_64) will be converted. OTOH clang strongly favours R11 and almost nothing gets converted. Note: it will also generate a correct replacement for the Jcc.d32 case, except unless the compilers start to prefix stuff that, it'll never fit. Specifically: Jncc.d8 1f LFENCE JMP *%\reg 1: is 7-8 bytes long, where the original instruction in unpadded form is only 6 bytes. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Tested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211026120310.359986601@infradead.org
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