[tip: x86/cleanups] x86/nospec: Remove unused RSB_FILL_LOOPS

From: tip-bot2 for Anthony Steinhauser
Date: Thu Jan 02 2020 - 05:07:24 EST


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 <asteinhauser@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 12:45:12 -08:00
Committer: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
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 <asteinhauser@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191226204512.24524-1-asteinhauser@xxxxxxxxxx
---
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