From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: static_cpu_has_safe: discard dynamic check after init
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 11:50:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160120105018.GB23350@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <569F1022.6040709@zytor.com>
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 08:42:10PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Right. I wish we could tag reference call sites as clean, not sources
> or targets. Sigh.
I was thinking about something like this:
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 11:45:36 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] 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>
---
arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 74e4bf11f562..35868bf529b9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -244,6 +244,11 @@ SECTIONS
*/
.altinstr_replacement : AT(ADDR(.altinstr_replacement) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
*(.altinstr_replacement)
+ /*
+ * Auxiliary section for misc instruction patching tasks. See
+ * static_cpu_has(), for an example.
+ */
+ *(.altinstr_aux)
}
/*
--
2.3.5
SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
--
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-20 10:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-16 19:22 [PATCH] x86: static_cpu_has_safe: discard dynamic check after init Brian Gerst
2016-01-16 19:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-16 19:58 ` Brian Gerst
2016-01-17 10:33 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-18 16:52 ` Brian Gerst
2016-01-18 17:49 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-18 18:14 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-18 18:29 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-18 18:39 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-18 19:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-01-18 23:05 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-18 23:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-01-18 23:25 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-19 13:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-19 16:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-19 23:10 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-19 23:26 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-19 23:49 ` Boris Petkov
2016-01-20 4:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-01-20 10:33 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-20 10:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-01-21 22:14 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-21 22:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-01-21 22:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-21 23:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-01-21 23:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-01-22 10:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-18 18:51 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-19 1:10 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-19 1:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-01-19 9:22 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-20 4:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-01-20 4:39 ` Brian Gerst
2016-01-20 4:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-01-20 10:50 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2016-01-20 10:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-01-20 11:05 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-20 14:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-01-20 15:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-20 15:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-01-20 16:04 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-20 16:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-01-23 6:50 [PATCH] x86/head_64.S: do not use temporary register to check alignment Alexander Kuleshov
2016-01-26 9:31 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-26 21:12 [PATCH 00/10] tip-queue 2016-01-26, rest Borislav Petkov
2016-01-26 21:12 ` [PATCH 01/10] x86/asm: Add condition codes clobber to memory barrier macros Borislav Petkov
2016-01-26 21:12 ` [PATCH 02/10] x86/asm: Drop a comment left over from X86_OOSTORE Borislav Petkov
2016-01-26 21:12 ` [PATCH 03/10] x86/asm: Tweak the comment about wmb() use for IO Borislav Petkov
2016-01-26 21:12 ` [PATCH 04/10] x86/cpufeature: Carve out X86_FEATURE_* Borislav Petkov
2016-01-30 13:18 ` [tip:x86/asm] " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2016-01-26 21:12 ` [PATCH 05/10] x86/cpufeature: Replace the old static_cpu_has() with safe variant Borislav Petkov
2016-01-30 13:19 ` [tip:x86/asm] " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2016-01-26 21:12 ` [PATCH 06/10] x86/cpufeature: Get rid of the non-asm goto variant Borislav Petkov
2016-01-27 3:36 ` Brian Gerst
2016-01-27 8:41 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-27 8:43 ` [PATCH -v1.1 " Borislav Petkov
2016-01-30 13:19 ` [tip:x86/asm] " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2016-01-27 8:45 ` [PATCH -v1.1 8/10] x86/alternatives: Discard dynamic check after init Borislav Petkov
2016-01-30 13:20 ` [tip:x86/asm] " tip-bot for Brian Gerst
2016-01-26 21:12 ` [PATCH 07/10] x86/alternatives: Add an auxilary section Borislav Petkov
2016-01-30 13:19 ` [tip:x86/asm] " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2016-01-26 21:12 ` [PATCH 08/10] x86/alternatives: Discard dynamic check after init Borislav Petkov
2016-01-26 21:12 ` [PATCH 09/10] x86/vdso: Use static_cpu_has() Borislav Petkov
2016-01-30 13:20 ` [tip:x86/asm] " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2016-01-26 21:12 ` [PATCH 10/10] x86/head_64: Simplify kernel load address alignment check Borislav Petkov
2016-01-30 13:20 ` [tip:x86/boot] x86/boot: " tip-bot for Alexander Kuleshov
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