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x86/speculation: Simplify and make CALL_NOSPEC consistent
authorPawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Sat, 1 Mar 2025 02:35:43 +0000 (18:35 -0800)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Mon, 3 Mar 2025 11:04:42 +0000 (12:04 +0100)
commit010c4a461c1dbf3fa75ddea8df018a6128b700c6
tree95999d67481295dc4731a3b332748e5ddbb47cd1
parent7eb172143d5508b4da468ed59ee857c6e5e01da6
x86/speculation: Simplify and make CALL_NOSPEC consistent

CALL_NOSPEC macro is used to generate Spectre-v2 mitigation friendly
indirect branches. At compile time the macro defaults to indirect branch,
and at runtime those can be patched to thunk based mitigations.

This approach is opposite of what is done for the rest of the kernel, where
the compile time default is to replace indirect calls with retpoline thunk
calls.

Make CALL_NOSPEC consistent with the rest of the kernel, default to
retpoline thunk at compile time when CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE is
enabled.

Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250228-call-nospec-v3-1-96599fed0f33@linux.intel.com
arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h