x86/retpolines: Disable switch jump tables when retpolines are enabled
Commit ce02ef06 ("x86, retpolines: Raise limit for generating indirect calls from switch-case") raised the limit under retpolines to 20 switch cases where gcc would only then start to emit jump tables, and therefore effectively disabling the emission of slow indirect calls in this area. After this has been brought to attention to gcc folks [0], Martin Liska has then fixed gcc to align with clang by avoiding to generate switch jump tables entirely under retpolines. This is taking effect in gcc starting from stable version 8.4.0. Given kernel supports compilation with older versions of gcc where the fix is not being available or backported anymore, we need to keep the extra KBUILD_CFLAGS around for some time and generally set the -fno-jump-tables to align with what more recent gcc is doing automatically today. More than 20 switch cases are not expected to be fast-path critical, but it would still be good to align with gcc behavior for versions < 8.4.0 in order to have consistency across supported gcc versions. vmlinux size is slightly growing by 0.27% for older gcc. This flag is only set to work around affected gcc, no change for clang. [0] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86952Suggested-by: Martin Liska <mliska@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Cc: Björn Töpel<bjorn.topel@intel.com> Cc: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@intel.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190325135620.14882-1-daniel@iogearbox.net
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