arm64: patching: Add aarch64_insn_write_literal_u64()
authorMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:46:01 +0000 (13:46 +0000)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tue, 24 Jan 2023 11:49:43 +0000 (11:49 +0000)
commite4ecbe83fd1a5428d5458de04a3404f1b5444429
tree0e7fafdcb46e5fe7277be82d46bfd55809662652
parent2bbbb4015aa1af62f8002de86de019786ecf63a7
arm64: patching: Add aarch64_insn_write_literal_u64()

In subsequent patches we'll need to atomically write to a
naturally-aligned 64-bit literal embedded within the kernel text.

Add a helper for this. For consistency with other text patching code we
use copy_to_kernel_nofault(), which is atomic for naturally-aligned
accesses up to 64-bits.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230123134603.1064407-7-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
arch/arm64/include/asm/patching.h
arch/arm64/kernel/patching.c