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powerpc/asm: Add a patch_site macro & helpers for patching instructions
authorMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Mon, 23 Jul 2018 15:07:52 +0000 (01:07 +1000)
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Tue, 7 Aug 2018 14:32:25 +0000 (00:32 +1000)
commitf003a4317bcd77dd2643ca21794ccb8864d19821
treec5a1e7711581553f63c1f382945248ce1b1120ab
parent1f018e145ee56402fc6c55e8e17fbe7b55da9ea6
powerpc/asm: Add a patch_site macro & helpers for patching instructions

Add a macro and some helper C functions for patching single asm
instructions.

The gas macro means we can do something like:

  1: nop
   patch_site 1b, patch__foo

Which is less visually distracting than defining a GLOBAL symbol at 1,
and also doesn't pollute the symbol table which can confuse eg. perf.

These are obviously similar to our existing feature sections, but are
not automatically patched based on CPU/MMU features, rather they are
designed to be manually patched by C code at some arbitrary point.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching-asm.h [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h
arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c