On Thu, 2018-01-25 at 12:35 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 10:52:53AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > > OK, my brain hurts a bit but I'm happy now. Thank you. > OK, I've updated the Changelog thusly. Is this satisfactory? > > --- > Subject: x86/paravirt: Annotate indirect calls > From: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> > Date: Wed Jan 17 16:58:11 CET 2018 > > Paravirt emits indirect calls which get flagged by objtool retpoline > checks, annotate it away because all these indirect calls will be > patched out before we start userspace. > > This patching happens through alternative_instructions() -> > apply_paravirt() -> pv_init_ops.patch() which will eventually end up > in paravirt_patch_default(). This function _will_ write direct > alternatives. > > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse <d...@amazon.co.uk> I love you, Peter.
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