When patching the kernel text with alternatives, we may end up patching
parts of the stop_machine state machine (e.g. atomic_dec_and_test in
ack_state) and consequently corrupt the instruction stream of any
secondary CPUs.
This patch passes the cpu_online_mask to stop_machine, forcing all of
the CPUs into our own callback which can place the secondary cores into
a dumb (but safe!) polling loop whilst the patching is carried out.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
There are cases where we want to compile out both versions of an
alternative code block, so add an enable parameter to the new conditional
alternative assembly macros in the same way as alternative_insn.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Some uses of ALTERNATIVE() may depend on a feature that is disabled at
compile time by a Kconfig option. In this case the unused alternative
instructions waste space, and if the original instruction is a nop, it
wastes time and space.
This patch adds an optional 'config' option to ALTERNATIVE() and
alternative_insn that allows the compiler to remove both the original
and alternative instructions if the config option is not defined.
Suggested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
The existing alternative_insn macro has some limitations that make it
hard to work with. In particular the fact it takes instructions from it
own macro arguments means it doesn't play very nicely with C pre-processor
macros because the macro arguments look like a string to the C
pre-processor. Workarounds are (probably) possible but things start to
look ugly.
Introduce an alternative set of macros that allows instructions to be
presented to the assembler as normal and switch everything over to the
new macros.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
AArch64 toolchains suffer from the following bug:
$ cat blah.S
1:
.inst 0x01020304
.if ((. - 1b) != 4)
.error "blah"
.endif
$ aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc -c blah.S
blah.S: Assembler messages:
blah.S:3: Error: non-constant expression in ".if" statement
which precludes the use of msr_s and co as part of alternatives.
We workaround this issue by not directly testing the labels
themselves, but by moving the current output pointer by a value
that should always be zero. If this value is not null, then
we will trigger a backward move, which is expclicitely forbidden.
This triggers the error we're after:
AS arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.o
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S: Assembler messages:
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S:1377: Error: attempt to move .org backwards
scripts/Makefile.build:294: recipe for target 'arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.o' failed
make[1]: *** [arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.o] Error 1
Makefile:946: recipe for target 'arch/arm64/kvm' failed
Not pretty, but at least works on the current toolchains.
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
asm/alternative-asm.h and asm/alternative.h are extremely similar,
and really deserve to live in the same file (as this makes further
modufications a bit easier).
Fold the content of alternative-asm.h into alternative.h, and
update the few users.
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Currently the kernel patches all necessary instructions once at boot
time, so modules are not covered by this.
Change the apply_alternatives() function to take a beginning and an
end pointer and introduce a new variant (apply_alternatives_all()) to
cover the existing use case for the static kernel image section.
Add a module_finalize() function to arm64 to check for an
alternatives section in a module and patch only the instructions from
that specific area.
Since that module code is not touched before the module
initialization has ended, we don't need to halt the machine before
doing the patching in the module's code.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
With a blatant copy of some x86 bits we introduce the alternative
runtime patching "framework" to arm64.
This is quite basic for now and we only provide the functions we need
at this time.
This is connected to the newly introduced feature bits.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
