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authorAlan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>2018-02-05 13:17:52 +1030
committerAlan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>2018-02-07 14:23:08 +1030
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Revert "PowerPC PLT speculative execution barriers"
This reverts most of commit 1be5d8d3bb. Left in place are addition of --no-plt-align to some ppc32 ld tests and the ld.texinfo --no-plt-thread-safe fix.
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@@ -7652,15 +7652,6 @@ looks for calls to commonly used functions that create threads, and if
seen, adds the necessary barriers. Use these options to change the
default behaviour.
-@cindex PowerPC64 PLT call stub speculative execution barrier
-@kindex --speculate-indirect-jumps
-@kindex --no-speculate-indirect-jumps
-@item --speculate-indirect-jumps
-@itemx --no-speculate-indirect-jumps
-Use these options to control whether all indirect branch instructions
-emitted by @code{ld}, such as those in the PLT, have a speculative
-execution barrier to mitigate Spectre variant 2 attacks.
-
@cindex PowerPC64 ELFv2 PLT localentry optimization
@kindex --plt-localentry
@kindex --no-plt-localentry