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retpoline: Introduce start/end markers of indirect thunk
authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Thu, 18 Jan 2018 16:14:21 +0000 (01:14 +0900)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 15:31:28 +0000 (16:31 +0100)
commit736e80a4213e9bbce40a7c050337047128b472ac
tree1aedc475ad8df60cc8b0654e77ce7050179980a8
parent6f41c34d69eb005e7848716bbcafc979b35037d5
retpoline: Introduce start/end markers of indirect thunk

Introduce start/end markers of __x86_indirect_thunk_* functions.
To make it easy, consolidate .text.__x86.indirect_thunk.* sections
to one .text.__x86.indirect_thunk section and put it in the
end of kernel text section and adds __indirect_thunk_start/end
so that other subsystem (e.g. kprobes) can identify it.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151629206178.10241.6828804696410044771.stgit@devbox
arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S