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authorAndré Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu>2015-09-08 01:01:14 -0300
committerAndré Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu>2015-09-08 01:01:14 -0300
commite5fd91f1ef340da553f7a79da9540c3db711c937 (patch)
treeb11842027dc6641da63f4bcc524f8678263304a3 /arch/x86/include/asm/alternative-asm.h
parent2a9b0348e685a63d97486f6749622b61e9e3292f (diff)
Linux-libre 4.2-gnu
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/alternative-asm.h')
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1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative-asm.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative-asm.h
index bdf02eeee..e7636bac7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative-asm.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative-asm.h
@@ -18,6 +18,12 @@
.endm
#endif
+/*
+ * Issue one struct alt_instr descriptor entry (need to put it into
+ * the section .altinstructions, see below). This entry contains
+ * enough information for the alternatives patching code to patch an
+ * instruction. See apply_alternatives().
+ */
.macro altinstruction_entry orig alt feature orig_len alt_len pad_len
.long \orig - .
.long \alt - .
@@ -27,6 +33,12 @@
.byte \pad_len
.endm
+/*
+ * Define an alternative between two instructions. If @feature is
+ * present, early code in apply_alternatives() replaces @oldinstr with
+ * @newinstr. ".skip" directive takes care of proper instruction padding
+ * in case @newinstr is longer than @oldinstr.
+ */
.macro ALTERNATIVE oldinstr, newinstr, feature
140:
\oldinstr
@@ -55,6 +67,12 @@
*/
#define alt_max_short(a, b) ((a) ^ (((a) ^ (b)) & -(-((a) < (b)))))
+
+/*
+ * Same as ALTERNATIVE macro above but for two alternatives. If CPU
+ * has @feature1, it replaces @oldinstr with @newinstr1. If CPU has
+ * @feature2, it replaces @oldinstr with @feature2.
+ */
.macro ALTERNATIVE_2 oldinstr, newinstr1, feature1, newinstr2, feature2
140:
\oldinstr