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| author | Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> | 2016-01-26 22:12:07 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-01-30 11:22:20 +0100 |
| commit | 337e4cc84021212a87b04b77b65cccc49304909e (patch) | |
| tree | f9df0d95f43f81f9e540087464147a4e9fcbac7e /arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | |
| parent | a362bf9f5e7dd659b96d01382da7b855f4e5a7a1 (diff) | |
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 <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453842730-28463-8-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index 74e4bf11f562..92dc211c11db 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) { |