mainline inclusion
from mainline-5.0-rc1
commit 24113d4878439baf1f23c1a33dfcc340fba66e97
category: bugfix
bugzilla: 7220
CVE: NA
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Indirect calls are inefficient because of retpolines that are used for
spectre workaround. This patch replaces an indirect call with a condition
(that can be predicted by the branch predictor).
Signed-off-by: NMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nyangerkun <yangerkun@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: NHou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: NYang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>