On 08/01/2018 03:34 AM, Dmitry Vyukov wrote: > On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 12:23 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 08/01/2018 02:03 AM, Andrey Ryabinin wrote: >> >>> I can't think of any advantage in not having the constructor. >> >> I can't see any advantage adding another indirect call, >> in RETPOLINE world. > > Can you please elaborate what's the problem here? > If slab ctor call have RETPOLINE, then using ctors more does not > introduce any security problems and they are not _that_ slow.
They _are_ slow, when we have dozens of them in a code path. I object "having to add" yet another indirect call, if this can be avoided [*] If some people want to use ctor, fine, but do not request this. [*] This can be tricky, but worth the pain. _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
