powerpc/asm: Add a patch_site macro & helpers for patching instructions
authorMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Thu, 11 Apr 2019 11:46:13 +0000 (21:46 +1000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 17 Apr 2019 06:36:41 +0000 (08:36 +0200)
commit6482f0d6af10262ca6586327090a47f2feaf0fea
treef7c4732c84f610e41b7a71aaf335f3e295bd90aa
parent25ea29564244de9271db9359b4190adf76822998
powerpc/asm: Add a patch_site macro & helpers for patching instructions

commit 06d0bbc6d0f56dacac3a79900e9a9a0d5972d818 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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