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Current BPF codegen doesn't respect X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE* flags and
unconditionally emits a thunk call, this is sub-optimal and doesn't
match the regular, compiler generated, code.

Update the i386 JIT to emit code equal to what the compiler emits for
the regular kernel text (IOW. a plain THUNK call).

Update the x86_64 JIT to emit code similar to the result of compiler
and kernel rewrites as according to X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE* flags.
Inlining RETPOLINE_AMD (lfence; jmp *%reg) and !RETPOLINE (jmp *%reg),
while doing a THUNK call for RETPOLINE.

This removes the hard-coded retpoline thunks and shrinks the generated
code. Leaving a single retpoline thunk definition in the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211026120310.614772675@infradead.org