It is never used, but it is misleading.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Steinhauser <[email protected]>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
index 5c24a7b35166..07e95dcb40ad 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@
*/
#define RSB_CLEAR_LOOPS 32 /* To forcibly overwrite all entries */
-#define RSB_FILL_LOOPS 16 /* To avoid underflow */
/*
* Google experimented with loop-unrolling and this turned out to be
--
2.24.1.735.g03f4e72817-goog
The following commit has been merged into the x86/cleanups branch of tip:
Commit-ID: fae7bfcc78146057ac2730719de8d5e41de19540
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/fae7bfcc78146057ac2730719de8d5e41de19540
Author: Anthony Steinhauser <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 12:45:12 -08:00
Committer: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
CommitterDate: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 10:54:53 +01:00
x86/nospec: Remove unused RSB_FILL_LOOPS
It was never really used, see
117cc7a908c8 ("x86/retpoline: Fill return stack buffer on vmexit")
[ bp: Massage. ]
Signed-off-by: Anthony Steinhauser <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: x86-ml <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
---
arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
index 5c24a7b..07e95dc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@
*/
#define RSB_CLEAR_LOOPS 32 /* To forcibly overwrite all entries */
-#define RSB_FILL_LOOPS 16 /* To avoid underflow */
/*
* Google experimented with loop-unrolling and this turned out to be