Re: [PATCH v22 8/8] x86/vdso: Add ENDBR64 to __vdso_sgx_enter_enclave
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: 2021-03-11 08:43:24
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On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 05:36:06AM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
Does it do any harm to put it there unconditionally?
Blows up your text footprint and I$ pressure. These instructions are 4 bytes each. Aside from that, they're a NOP, so only consume front-end resources (hopefully) on older CPUs and when IBT is disabled.