Drop thunk_ra macro in favor of an additional argument to the thunk
macro since their bodies are almost identical. Do a whitespace scrubbing
and use CFI-aware macros for full annotation.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306873314-32523-5-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
As reported in BZ #30352:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30352
there's a kernel bug related to reading the last allowed page on x86_64.
The _copy_to_user() and _copy_from_user() functions use the following
check for address limit:
if (buf + size >= limit)
fail();
while it should be more permissive:
if (buf + size > limit)
fail();
That's because the size represents the number of bytes being
read/write from/to buf address AND including the buf address.
So the copy function will actually never touch the limit
address even if "buf + size == limit".
Following program fails to use the last page as buffer
due to the wrong limit check:
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <assert.h>
#define PAGE_SIZE (4096)
#define LAST_PAGE ((void*)(0x7fffffffe000))
int main()
{
int fds[2], err;
void * ptr = mmap(LAST_PAGE, PAGE_SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
assert(ptr == LAST_PAGE);
err = socketpair(AF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM, 0, fds);
assert(err == 0);
err = send(fds[0], ptr, PAGE_SIZE, 0);
perror("send");
assert(err == PAGE_SIZE);
err = recv(fds[1], ptr, PAGE_SIZE, MSG_WAITALL);
perror("recv");
assert(err == PAGE_SIZE);
return 0;
}
The other place checking the addr limit is the access_ok() function,
which is working properly. There's just a misleading comment
for the __range_not_ok() macro - which this patch fixes as well.
The last page of the user-space address range is a guard page and
Brian Gerst observed that the guard page itself due to an erratum on K8 cpus
(#121 Sequential Execution Across Non-Canonical Boundary Causes Processor
Hang).
However, the test code is using the last valid page before the guard page.
The bug is that the last byte before the guard page can't be read
because of the off-by-one error. The guard page is left in place.
This bug would normally not show up because the last page is
part of the process stack and never accessed via syscalls.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305210630-7136-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Support memset() with enhanced rep stosb. On processors supporting enhanced
REP MOVSB/STOSB, the alternative memset_c_e function using enhanced rep stosb
overrides the fast string alternative memset_c and the original function.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-10-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Support memmove() by enhanced rep movsb. On processors supporting enhanced
REP MOVSB/STOSB, the alternative memmove() function using enhanced rep movsb
overrides the original function.
The patch doesn't change the backward memmove case to use enhanced rep
movsb.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-9-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Support memcpy() with enhanced rep movsb. On processors supporting enhanced
rep movsb, the alternative memcpy() function using enhanced rep movsb overrides the original function and the fast string
function.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-8-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Support copy_to_user/copy_from_user() by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB.
On processors supporting enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB, the alternative
copy_user_enhanced_fast_string function using enhanced rep movsb overrides the
original function and the fast string function.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-7-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Intel processors are adding enhancements to REP MOVSB/STOSB and the use of
REP MOVSB/STOSB for optimal memcpy/memset or similar functions is recommended.
Enhancement availability is indicated by CPUID.7.0.EBX[9] (Enhanced REP MOVSB/
STOSB).
Support clear_page() with rep stosb for processor supporting enhanced REP MOVSB
/STOSB. On processors supporting enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB, the alternative
clear_page_c_e function using enhanced REP STOSB overrides the original function
and the fast string function.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-6-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Omit the segment prefix in the UP case. GS is not used then
and we will generate segfaults if cmpxchg16b is used otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Flush TLB if PGD entry is changed in i386 PAE mode
x86, dumpstack: Correct stack dump info when frame pointer is available
x86: Clean up csum-copy_64.S a bit
x86: Fix common misspellings
x86: Fix misspelling and align params
x86: Use PentiumPro-optimized partial_csum() on VIA C7
The many stray whitespaces and other uncleanlinesses made this code
almost unreadable to me - so fix those.
No changes to the code.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
They were generated by 'codespell' and then manually reviewed.
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <1300389856-1099-3-git-send-email-lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'for-2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
percpu, x86: Add arch-specific this_cpu_cmpxchg_double() support
percpu: Generic support for this_cpu_cmpxchg_double()
alpha: use L1_CACHE_BYTES for cacheline size in the linker script
percpu: align percpu readmostly subsection to cacheline
Fix up trivial conflict in arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S due to the
percpu alignment having changed ("x86: Reduce back the alignment of the
per-CPU data section")
* 'x86-mem-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86-64, mem: Convert memmove() to assembly file and fix return value bug
'simple' would have required specifying current frame address
and return address location manually, but that's obviously not
the case (and not necessary) here.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4D6D1082020000780003454C@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Some of the items removed were apparently never used, others
simply didn't get removed with their last user.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4D6BD3A002000078000341F1@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cleaning up and shortening code...
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
LKML-Reference: <4D6BD35002000078000341DA@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
These weren't part of the initial commit of this code.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
LKML-Reference: <4D6BCDFF02000078000341B0@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Support this_cpu_cmpxchg_double() using the cmpxchg16b and cmpxchg8b
instructions.
-tj: s/percpu_cmpxchg16b/percpu_cmpxchg16b_double/ for consistency and
other cosmetic changes.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
memmove_64.c only implements memmove() function which is completely written in
inline assembly code. Therefore it doesn't make sense to keep the assembly code
in .c file.
Currently memmove() doesn't store return value to rax. This may cause issue if
caller uses the return value. The patch fixes this issue.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1295314755-6625-1-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
The code will use a segment prefix instead of doing the lookup and
calculation.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
movs instruction will combine data to accelerate moving data,
however we need to concern two cases about it.
1. movs instruction need long lantency to startup,
so here we use general mov instruction to copy data.
2. movs instruction is not good for unaligned case,
even if src offset is 0x10, dest offset is 0x0,
we avoid and handle the case by general mov instruction.
Signed-off-by: Ma Ling <ling.ma@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1284664360-6138-1-git-send-email-ling.ma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
All read operations after allocation stage can run speculatively,
all write operation will run in program order, and if addresses are
different read may run before older write operation, otherwise wait
until write commit. However CPU don't check each address bit,
so read could fail to recognize different address even they
are in different page.For example if rsi is 0xf004, rdi is 0xe008,
in following operation there will generate big performance latency.
1. movq (%rsi), %rax
2. movq %rax, (%rdi)
3. movq 8(%rsi), %rax
4. movq %rax, 8(%rdi)
If %rsi and rdi were in really the same meory page, there are TRUE
read-after-write dependence because instruction 2 write 0x008 and
instruction 3 read 0x00c, the two address are overlap partially.
Actually there are in different page and no any issues,
but without checking each address bit CPU could think they are
in the same page, and instruction 3 have to wait for instruction 2
to write data into cache from write buffer, then load data from cache,
the cost time read spent is equal to mfence instruction. We may avoid it by
tuning operation sequence as follow.
1. movq 8(%rsi), %rax
2. movq %rax, 8(%rdi)
3. movq (%rsi), %rax
4. movq %rax, (%rdi)
Instruction 3 read 0x004, instruction 2 write address 0x010, no any
dependence. At last on Core2 we gain 1.83x speedup compared with
original instruction sequence. In this patch we first handle small
size(less 20bytes), then jump to different copy mode. Based on our
micro-benchmark small bytes from 1 to 127 bytes, we got up to 2X
improvement, and up to 1.5X improvement for 1024 bytes on Corei7. (We
use our micro-benchmark, and will do further test according to your
requirment)
Signed-off-by: Ma Ling <ling.ma@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1277753065-18610-1-git-send-email-ling.ma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
memmove() allow source and destination address to be overlap, but
there is no such limitation for memcpy(). Therefore, explicitly
implement memmove() in both the forwards and backward directions, to
give us the ability to optimize memcpy().
Signed-off-by: Ma Ling <ling.ma@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <C10D3FB0CD45994C8A51FEC1227CE22F0E483AD86A@shsmsx502.ccr.corp.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
* 'x86/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, asm: Use a lower case name for the end macro in atomic64_386_32.S
x86, asm: Refactor atomic64_386_32.S to support old binutils and be cleaner
x86: Document __phys_reloc_hide() usage in __pa_symbol()
x86, apic: Map the local apic when parsing the MP table.
Use a lowercase name for the end macro, which somehow fixes a binutils 2.16
problem.
Signed-off-by: Luca Barbieri <luca@luca-barbieri.com>
LKML-Reference: <tip-30246557a06bb20618bed906a06d1e1e0faa8bb4@git.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The old code didn't work on binutils 2.12 because setting a symbol to
a register apparently requires a fairly recent version.
This commit refactors the code to use the C preprocessor instead, and
in the process makes the whole code a bit easier to understand.
The object code produced is unchanged as expected.
This fixes kernel bugzilla 16506.
Reported-by: Dieter Stussy <kd6lvw+software@kd6lvw.ampr.org>
Signed-off-by: Luca Barbieri <luca@luca-barbieri.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> 2.6.35
LKML-Reference: <tip-*@git.kernel.org>
* 'x86-alternatives-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, alternatives: BUG on encountering an invalid CPU feature number
x86, alternatives: Fix one more open-coded 8-bit alternative number
x86, alternatives: Use 16-bit numbers for cpufeature index
We have two functions for doing exactly the same thing -- emulating
cmpxchg8b on 486 and older hardware -- with different calling
conventions, and yet doing the same thing. Drop the C version and use
the assembly version, via alternatives, for both the local and
non-local versions of cmpxchg8b.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <AANLkTikAmaDPji-TVDarmG1yD=fwbffcsmEU=YEuP+8r@mail.gmail.com>
Move cmpxchg emulation code from arch/x86/kernel/cpu (which is
otherwise CPU identification) to arch/x86/lib, where other emulation
code lives already.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <AANLkTikAmaDPji-TVDarmG1yD=fwbffcsmEU=YEuP+8r@mail.gmail.com>
Fix a missing case of an 8-bit alternative number, buried inside an
assembly macro.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Yinghai Lu <yinhai@kernel.org>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <4C3BDDA3.2060900@kernel.org>
We already have cpufeature indicies above 255, so use a 16-bit number
for the alternatives index. This consumes a padding field and so
doesn't add any size, but it means that abusing the padding field to
create assembly errors on overflow no longer works. We can retain the
test simply by redirecting it to the .discard section, however.
[ v3: updated to include open-coded locations ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <tip-f88731e3068f9d1392ba71cc9f50f035d26a0d4f@git.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* 'x86-atomic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Fix LOCK_PREFIX_HERE for uniprocessor build
x86, atomic64: In selftest, distinguish x86-64 from 586+
x86-32: Fix atomic64_inc_not_zero return value convention
lib: Fix atomic64_inc_not_zero test
lib: Fix atomic64_add_unless return value convention
x86-32: Fix atomic64_add_unless return value convention
lib: Fix atomic64_add_unless test
x86: Implement atomic[64]_dec_if_positive()
lib: Only test atomic64_dec_if_positive on archs having it
x86-32: Rewrite 32-bit atomic64 functions in assembly
lib: Add self-test for atomic64_t
x86-32: Allow UP/SMP lock replacement in cmpxchg64
x86: Add support for lock prefix in alternatives
The x86_64 call_rwsem_wait() treats the active state counter part of the
R/W semaphore state as being 16-bit when it's actually 32-bit (it's half
of the 64-bit state). It should do "decl %edx" not "decw %dx".
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Merge reason:
Conflict between LOCK_PREFIX_HERE and relative alternatives
pointers
Resolved Conflicts:
arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The PEBS+LBR decoding magic needs the insn_get_length() infrastructure
to be able to decode x86 instruction length.
So split it out of KPROBES dependency and make it enabled when either
KPROBES or PERF_EVENTS is enabled.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
atomic64_inc_not_zero must return 1 if it perfomed the add and 0 otherwise.
It was doing the opposite thing.
Signed-off-by: Luca Barbieri <luca@luca-barbieri.com>
LKML-Reference: <1267469749-11878-6-git-send-email-luca@luca-barbieri.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
atomic64_add_unless must return 1 if it perfomed the add and 0 otherwise.
The implementation did the opposite thing.
Reported-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Barbieri <luca@luca-barbieri.com>
LKML-Reference: <1267469749-11878-3-git-send-email-luca@luca-barbieri.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* 'x86-rwsem-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86-64, rwsem: Avoid store forwarding hazard in __downgrade_write
x86-64, rwsem: 64-bit xadd rwsem implementation
x86: Fix breakage of UML from the changes in the rwsem system
x86-64: support native xadd rwsem implementation
x86: clean up rwsem type system
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, cacheinfo: Enable L3 CID only on AMD
x86, cacheinfo: Remove NUMA dependency, fix for AMD Fam10h rev D1
x86, cpu: Print AMD virtualization features in /proc/cpuinfo
x86, cacheinfo: Calculate L3 indices
x86, cacheinfo: Add cache index disable sysfs attrs only to L3 caches
x86, cacheinfo: Fix disabling of L3 cache indices
intel-agp: Switch to wbinvd_on_all_cpus
x86, lib: Add wbinvd smp helpers
This patch replaces atomic64_32.c with two assembly implementations,
one for 386/486 machines using pushf/cli/popf and one for 586+ machines
using cmpxchg8b.
The cmpxchg8b implementation provides the following advantages over the
current one:
1. Implements atomic64_add_unless, atomic64_dec_if_positive and
atomic64_inc_not_zero
2. Uses the ZF flag changed by cmpxchg8b instead of doing a comparison
3. Uses custom register calling conventions that reduce or eliminate
register moves to suit cmpxchg8b
4. Reads the initial value instead of using cmpxchg8b to do that.
Currently we use lock xaddl and movl, which seems the fastest.
5. Does not use the lock prefix for atomic64_set
64-bit writes are already atomic, so we don't need that.
We still need it for atomic64_read to avoid restoring a value
changed in the meantime.
6. Allocates registers as well or better than gcc
The 386 implementation provides support for 386 and 486 machines.
386/486 SMP is not supported (we dropped it), but such support can be
added easily if desired.
A pure assembly implementation is required due to the custom calling
conventions, and desire to use %ebp in atomic64_add_return (we need
7 registers...), as well as the ability to use pushf/popf in the 386
code without an intermediate pop/push.
The parameter names are changed to match the convention in atomic_64.h
Changes in v3 (due to rebasing to tip/x86/asm):
- Patches atomic64_32.h instead of atomic_32.h
- Uses the CALL alternative mechanism from commit
1b1d925818
Changes in v2:
- Merged 386 and cx8 support in the same patch
- 386 support now done in assembly, C code no longer used at all
- cmpxchg64 is used for atomic64_cmpxchg
- stop using macros, use one-line inline functions instead
- miscellanous changes and improvements
Signed-off-by: Luca Barbieri <luca@luca-barbieri.com>
LKML-Reference: <1267005265-27958-5-git-send-email-luca@luca-barbieri.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Iomem has no special significance on x86. Use the standard mem*
functions instead of trying to call other versions. Some fixups
are needed to match the function prototypes.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1265380629-3212-6-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Add wbinvd_on_cpu and wbinvd_on_all_cpus stubs for executing wbinvd on a
particular CPU.
[ hpa: renamed lib/smp.c to lib/cache-smp.c ]
[ hpa: wbinvd_on_all_cpus() returns int, but wbinvd() returns
void. Thus, the former cannot be a macro for the latter,
replace with an inline function. ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <1264172467-25155-2-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
This one is much faster than the spinlock based fallback rwsem code,
with certain artifical benchmarks having shown 300%+ improvement on
threaded page faults etc.
Again, note the 32767-thread limit here. So this really does need that
whole "make rwsem_count_t be 64-bit and fix the BIAS values to match"
extension on top of it, but that is conceptually a totally independent
issue.
NOT TESTED! The original patch that this all was based on were tested by
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki, but maybe I screwed up something when I created the
cleaned-up series, so caveat emptor..
Also note that it _may_ be a good idea to mark some more registers
clobbered on x86-64 in the inline asms instead of saving/restoring them.
They are inline functions, but they are only used in places where there
are not a lot of live registers _anyway_, so doing for example the
clobbers of %r8-%r11 in the asm wouldn't make the fast-path code any
worse, and would make the slow-path code smaller.
(Not that the slow-path really matters to that degree. Saving a few
unnecessary registers is the _least_ of our problems when we hit the slow
path. The instruction/cycle counting really only matters in the fast
path).
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001121810410.17145@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
In order to avoid unnecessary chains of branches, rather than
implementing memcpy()/memset()'s access to their alternative
implementations via a jump, patch the (larger) original function
directly.
The memcpy() part of this is slightly subtle: while alternative
instruction patching does itself use memcpy(), with the
replacement block being less than 64-bytes in size the main loop
of the original function doesn't get used for copying memcpy_c()
over memcpy(), and hence we can safely write over its beginning.
Also note that the CFI annotations are fine for both variants of
each of the functions.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B2BB8D30200007800026AF2@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In order to avoid unnecessary chains of branches, rather than
implementing copy_user_generic() as a function consisting of
just a single (possibly patched) branch, instead properly deal
with patching call instructions in the alternative instructions
framework, and move the patching into the callers.
As a follow-on, one could also introduce something like
__EXPORT_SYMBOL_ALT() to avoid patching call sites in modules.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B2BB8180200007800026AE7@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
