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Replace fastops with C based stubs. There are a bunch of problems with the current fastop infrastructure, most all related to their special calling convention, which bypasses the normal C-ABI. There are two immediate problems with this at present: - it relies on RET preserving EFLAGS; whereas C-ABI does not. - it circumvents compiler based control-flow-integrity checking because its all asm magic. The first is a problem for some mitigations where the x86_indirect_return_thunk needs to include non-trivial work that clobbers EFLAGS (eg. the Skylake call depth tracking thing). The second is a problem because it presents a 'naked' indirect call on kCFI builds, making it a prime target for control flow hijacking. Additionally, given that a large chunk of virtual machine performance relies on absolutely avoiding vmexit these days, this emulation stuff just isn't that critical for performance anymore. As such, replace the fastop calls with normal C functions using the 'execute' member. As noted by Paolo: this code was performance critical for pre-Westmere (2010) and only when running big real mode code. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250714103439.773781574@infradead.org |
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Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.