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| author | Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> | 2009-12-18 16:12:56 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-12-30 11:57:31 +0100 |
| commit | 1b1d9258181bae199dc940f4bd0298126b9a73d9 (patch) | |
| tree | b17ca149d943051fc76e79b75fc4b89c61b524a2 /arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | |
| parent | 499a5f1efa0b0ac56ec5d060412aed84ae68e63e (diff) | |
| download | linux-1b1d9258181bae199dc940f4bd0298126b9a73d9.tar.bz2 | |
x86-64: Modify copy_user_generic() alternatives mechanism
In order to avoid unnecessary chains of branches, rather than
implementing copy_user_generic() as a function consisting of
just a single (possibly patched) branch, instead properly deal
with patching call instructions in the alternative instructions
framework, and move the patching into the callers.
As a follow-on, one could also introduce something like
__EXPORT_SYMBOL_ALT() to avoid patching call sites in modules.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B2BB8180200007800026AE7@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c index de7353c0ce9c..2589ea4c60ce 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ void __init_or_module apply_alternatives(struct alt_instr *start, struct alt_instr *end) { struct alt_instr *a; - char insnbuf[MAX_PATCH_LEN]; + u8 insnbuf[MAX_PATCH_LEN]; DPRINTK("%s: alt table %p -> %p\n", __func__, start, end); for (a = start; a < end; a++) { @@ -223,6 +223,8 @@ void __init_or_module apply_alternatives(struct alt_instr *start, } #endif memcpy(insnbuf, a->replacement, a->replacementlen); + if (*insnbuf == 0xe8 && a->replacementlen == 5) + *(s32 *)(insnbuf + 1) += a->replacement - a->instr; add_nops(insnbuf + a->replacementlen, a->instrlen - a->replacementlen); text_poke_early(instr, insnbuf, a->instrlen); |