Commit-ID: 337e4cc84021212a87b04b77b65cccc49304909e Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/337e4cc84021212a87b04b77b65cccc49304909e Author: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de> AuthorDate: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 22:12:07 +0100 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> CommitDate: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 11:22:20 +0100
x86/alternatives: Add an auxilary section Add .altinstr_aux for additional instructions which will be used before and/or during patching. All stuff which needs more sophisticated patching should go there. See next patch. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brge...@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlas...@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453842730-28463-8-git-send-email...@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> --- arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index 74e4bf1..92dc211 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -195,6 +195,17 @@ SECTIONS :init #endif + /* + * Section for code used exclusively before alternatives are run. All + * references to such code must be patched out by alternatives, normally + * by using X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS CPU feature bit. + * + * See static_cpu_has() for an example. + */ + .altinstr_aux : AT(ADDR(.altinstr_aux) - LOAD_OFFSET) { + *(.altinstr_aux) + } + INIT_DATA_SECTION(16) .x86_cpu_dev.init : AT(ADDR(.x86_cpu_dev.init) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
