On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 12:44:56PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> +
> + if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE_AMD)) {
> + EMIT_LFENCE();
> + EMIT2(0xFF, 0xE0 + reg);
> + } else if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE)) {
> + emit_jump(&prog, reg_thunk[reg], ip);
> + } else
One more question.
What's a deal with AMD? I thought the retpoline is effective on it as well.
lfence is an optimization or retpoline turned out to be not enough
in some cases?
