tree 4deed9a2d080a47d84be45ba50b665daa77657e8
parent 2d0e63e030babe19c94b4453ef4b272c0aacd75a
author Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> 1512302534 +0000
committer Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> 1521464597 +0000

arm64: alternatives: Add dynamic patching feature

We've so far relied on a patching infrastructure that only gave us
a single alternative, without any way to provide a range of potential
replacement instructions. For a single feature, this is an all or
nothing thing.

It would be interesting to have a more flexible grained way of patching
the kernel though, where we could dynamically tune the code that gets
injected.

In order to achive this, let's introduce a new form of dynamic patching,
assiciating a callback to a patching site. This callback gets source and
target locations of the patching request, as well as the number of
instructions to be patched.

Dynamic patching is declared with the new ALTERNATIVE_CB and alternative_cb
directives:

	asm volatile(ALTERNATIVE_CB("mov %0, #0\n", callback)
		     : "r" (v));
or
	alternative_cb callback
		mov	x0, #0
	alternative_cb_end

where callback is the C function computing the alternative.

Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>