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.
