4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> commit 337e4cc84021212a87b04b77b65cccc49304909e upstream 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 <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Matt Helsley (VMware) <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Alexey Makhalov <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Bo Gan <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -202,6 +202,17 @@ 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) {
