retpoline: Introduce start/end markers of indirect thunk
authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Thu, 18 Jan 2018 16:14:21 +0000 (01:14 +0900)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 18:58:33 +0000 (18:58 +0000)
commitdc3ba7618f6010e680d1f59a8d18f3063dc404fa
tree582326e5b2722fe5aa806abf1a19aa5ae3d2bccf
parent338c0fea76c5051df7462181c7353b7a1b2ea70d
retpoline: Introduce start/end markers of indirect thunk

commit 736e80a4213e9bbce40a7c050337047128b472ac upstream.

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>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151629206178.10241.6828804696410044771.stgit@devbox
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S