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Date:   Fri, 20 Aug 2021 12:18:45 -0500
From:   Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/32: indirect function call use bctrl rather than blrl in ret_from_kernel_thread
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On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 10:15:11PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> writes:
> > Copied from commit 89bbe4c798bc ("powerpc/64: indirect function call
> > use bctrl rather than blrl in ret_from_kernel_thread")
> >
> > blrl is not recommended to use as an indirect function call, as it may
> > corrupt the link stack predictor.
> 
> Do we know if any 32-bit CPUs have a link stack predictor or similar?

74xx do.


Segher