arm64: alternative: Add support for patching adrp instructions
authorSuzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Fri, 9 Sep 2016 13:07:13 +0000 (14:07 +0100)
committerWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Fri, 9 Sep 2016 14:03:28 +0000 (15:03 +0100)
adrp uses PC-relative address offset to a page (of 4K size) of
a symbol. If it appears in an alternative code patched in, we
should adjust the offset to reflect the address where it will
be run from. This patch adds support for fixing the offset
for adrp instructions.

Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
arch/arm64/kernel/alternative.c

index 992918dfbe2db6a64ba01b08df86db8f203640ac..06d650f61da716a8e318a802b7af41ab9087bfaa 100644 (file)
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ static bool branch_insn_requires_update(struct alt_instr *alt, unsigned long pc)
        BUG();
 }
 
+#define align_down(x, a)       ((unsigned long)(x) & ~(((unsigned long)(a)) - 1))
+
 static u32 get_alt_insn(struct alt_instr *alt, u32 *insnptr, u32 *altinsnptr)
 {
        u32 insn;
@@ -79,6 +81,19 @@ static u32 get_alt_insn(struct alt_instr *alt, u32 *insnptr, u32 *altinsnptr)
                        offset = target - (unsigned long)insnptr;
                        insn = aarch64_set_branch_offset(insn, offset);
                }
+       } else if (aarch64_insn_is_adrp(insn)) {
+               s32 orig_offset, new_offset;
+               unsigned long target;
+
+               /*
+                * If we're replacing an adrp instruction, which uses PC-relative
+                * immediate addressing, adjust the offset to reflect the new
+                * PC. adrp operates on 4K aligned addresses.
+                */
+               orig_offset  = aarch64_insn_adrp_get_offset(insn);
+               target = align_down(altinsnptr, SZ_4K) + orig_offset;
+               new_offset = target - align_down(insnptr, SZ_4K);
+               insn = aarch64_insn_adrp_set_offset(insn, new_offset);
        } else if (aarch64_insn_uses_literal(insn)) {
                /*
                 * Disallow patching unhandled instructions using PC relative