Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 4.4 25/43] x86/alternatives: Add an auxilary section | Date | Mon, 16 Jul 2018 09:36:30 +0200 |
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4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
commit 337e4cc84021212a87b04b77b65cccc49304909e upstream
Add .altinstr_aux for additional instructions which will be used before and/or during patching. All stuff which needs more sophisticated patching should go there. See next patch.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453842730-28463-8-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa@csail.mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Matt Helsley (VMware) <matt.helsley@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@vmware.com> Reviewed-by: Bo Gan <ganb@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> ---
arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -202,6 +202,17 @@ SECTIONS :init #endif + /* + * Section for code used exclusively before alternatives are run. All + * references to such code must be patched out by alternatives, normally + * by using X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS CPU feature bit. + * + * See static_cpu_has() for an example. + */ + .altinstr_aux : AT(ADDR(.altinstr_aux) - LOAD_OFFSET) { + *(.altinstr_aux) + } + INIT_DATA_SECTION(16) .x86_cpu_dev.init : AT(ADDR(.x86_cpu_dev.init) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
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