From 9072d11da15a71e086eab3b5085184f2c1d06913 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fenghua Yu Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 15:29:13 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] x86, alternative: Add altinstruction_entry macro Add altinstruction_entry macro to generate .altinstructions section entries from assembly code. This should be less failure-prone than open-coding. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-5-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- arch/x86/include/asm/alternative-asm.h | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative-asm.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative-asm.h index a63a68be1cce..94d420b360d1 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative-asm.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative-asm.h @@ -15,4 +15,13 @@ .endm #endif +.macro altinstruction_entry orig alt feature orig_len alt_len + .align 8 + .quad \orig + .quad \alt + .word \feature + .byte \orig_len + .byte \alt_len +.endm + #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */ -- 2.20.1