From: Paul McKenney <paulmckrcu@gmail.com>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>, Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/5] x86/syscall: Mark exit[_group] syscall handlers __noreturn
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 13:40:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJzB8QF_+51+rrJmq3iXkaAbmbbyKYVf0m_LpQCRSLS_FgHUMQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240421052540.w7gtahoko2qerhqq@treble>
They apply fine as is, so I have started tests with that pair of patches.
Thanx, Paul
On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 10:25 PM Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 06:58:58AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 02:09:49PM -0700, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > > The direct-call syscall dispatch functions don't know that the exit()
> > > and exit_group() syscall handlers don't return. As a result the call
> > > sites aren't optimized accordingly.
> > >
> > > Fix that by marking those exit syscall declarations as __noreturn.
> > >
> > > Fixes the following warnings:
> > >
> > > vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: x64_sys_call+0x2804: __x64_sys_exit() is missing a __noreturn annotation
> > > vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: ia32_sys_call+0x29b6: __ia32_sys_exit_group() is missing a __noreturn annotation
> > >
> > > Fixes: 7390db8aea0d ("x86/bhi: Add support for clearing branch history at syscall entry")
> > > Reported-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
> > > Closes: https://lkml.kernel.org/lkml/6dba9b32-db2c-4e6d-9500-7a08852f17a3@paulmck-laptop
> > > Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
> >
> > Looks good, but it does not apply on top of current -next and I don't
> > trust myself to hand-apply it (something about having just got off of
> > a flight across the big pond).
> >
> > Could you please let me know what else do I need to pull in to be able
> > to cleanly apply this one?
>
> This patch has a dependency on an earlier patch in the set:
>
> https://lkml.kernel.org/lkml/982d05a2f669140f26500bee643011896d661094.1713559768.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
>
> Though I think it's not a hard dependency and I could reverse the order
> of the patches if needed.
>
> --
> Josh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-21 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-19 21:09 [PATCH 0/5] x86/bugs: more BHI fixes Josh Poimboeuf
2024-04-19 21:09 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] x86/bugs: Only harden syscalls when needed Josh Poimboeuf
2024-04-22 8:09 ` Yujie Liu
2024-05-07 5:17 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2024-04-19 21:09 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] cpu/speculation: Fix CPU mitigation defaults for !x86 Josh Poimboeuf
2024-04-20 0:09 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-23 14:10 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-24 5:35 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2024-04-19 21:09 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] x86/syscall: Mark exit[_group] syscall handlers __noreturn Josh Poimboeuf
2024-04-20 13:58 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-04-21 5:25 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2024-04-21 20:40 ` Paul McKenney [this message]
2024-04-21 21:47 ` Paul McKenney
2024-05-02 23:48 ` Paul McKenney
2024-05-03 15:38 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-03 19:56 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2024-05-03 20:44 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2024-05-03 23:33 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-03 23:48 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2024-05-04 16:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-04-19 21:09 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] x86/bugs: Remove duplicate Spectre cmdline option descriptions Josh Poimboeuf
2024-04-19 21:09 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] x86/bugs: Add 'spectre_bhi=vmexit' cmdline option Josh Poimboeuf
2024-04-19 21:46 ` Josh Poimboeuf
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