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Commit cc1ac9c7 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra
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x86/retpoline: Fix retpoline unwind



Currently objtool cannot understand retpolines, and thus cannot
generate ORC unwind information for them. This means that we cannot
unwind from the middle of a retpoline.

The recent ANNOTATE_INTRA_FUNCTION_CALL and UNWIND_HINT_RET_OFFSET
support in objtool enables it to understand the basic retpoline
construct. A further problem is that the ORC unwind information is
alternative invariant; IOW. every alternative should have the same
ORC, retpolines obviously violate this. This means we need to
out-of-line them.

Since all GCC generated code already uses out-of-line retpolines, this
should not affect performance much, if anything.

This will enable objtool to generate valid ORC data for the
out-of-line copies, which means we can correctly and reliably unwind
through a retpoline.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200428191700.210835357@infradead.org
parent 34fdce69
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