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>
