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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>
Borislav Petkov 9 年 前
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1 ファイル変更11 行追加0 行削除
  1. 11 0
      arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S

+ 11 - 0
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) {