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SubjectRe: [PATCH 03/24] x86/paravirt: Annotate indirect calls
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 12:38:50PM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 04:25:42PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > 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.
>
> There's one condition where this isn't true: the 'noreplace-paravirt'
> cmdline option. I have no idea why that option exists but we should
> consider just removing it.

Smells like a debug remnant from back when all this patching crap was
new. And yes, that sounds like something that should maybe go away. Esp.
for retpoline builds.

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