arm64: alternatives: Add dynamic patching feature
authorMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 09:52:56 +0000 (10:52 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 22 Jul 2018 12:28:50 +0000 (14:28 +0200)
commite77175fafa7dd941873dc248ab0f20aa56fe3431
tree660262912ff713f80f880c3ed9e4a369e0006f9d
parent286950e0831b9bf7180c09b2dd06ec88922fcc12
arm64: alternatives: Add dynamic patching feature

Commit dea5e2a4c5bcf196f879a66cebdcca07793e8ba4 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative.h
arch/arm64/kernel/alternative.c