powerpc/asm: Add a patch_site macro & helpers for patching instructions

Add a macro and some helper C functions for patching single asm
instructions.

The gas macro means we can do something like:

  1:	nop
  	patch_site 1b, patch__foo

Which is less visually distracting than defining a GLOBAL symbol at 1,
and also doesn't pollute the symbol table which can confuse eg. perf.

These are obviously similar to our existing feature sections, but are
not automatically patched based on CPU/MMU features, rather they are
designed to be manually patched by C code at some arbitrary point.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching-asm.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching-asm.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ed7b1448493a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching-asm.h
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ */
+/*
+ * Copyright 2018, Michael Ellerman, IBM Corporation.
+ */
+#ifndef _ASM_POWERPC_CODE_PATCHING_ASM_H
+#define _ASM_POWERPC_CODE_PATCHING_ASM_H
+
+/* Define a "site" that can be patched */
+.macro patch_site label name
+	.pushsection ".rodata"
+	.balign 4
+	.global \name
+\name:
+	.4byte	\label - .
+	.popsection
+.endm
+
+#endif /* _ASM_POWERPC_CODE_PATCHING_ASM_H */