Developer Notes

This area of the SolidDriver documentation provides hints and best practices to developers creating and maintain kernel module packages.

• Building KMPs with Retpoline Support
  • Background
  • Building KMPs with Retpoline Support
  • Default requirement: Updated compiler
  • Method 1: Building against a retpoline kernel
  • Method 2: Using the inline thunk routines
    • Setting the compiler switches
  • Method 2a: Setting the retpoline flag
  • Verifying retpoline based modules
• Note Regarding kGraft
  • Background
  • kGraft and Kernel Threads