UPSTREAM: arm64: alternative: add auto-nop infrastructure
authorMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Wed, 7 Sep 2016 10:07:08 +0000 (11:07 +0100)
committerAmit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
Mon, 16 Jan 2017 09:20:50 +0000 (14:50 +0530)
commitba6b6846fdb7babc443823ec0b6e1608d60fde41
treef7430f401ab3ac487c0c74409d4f22a58b687dcc
parentce7bd06ee7e1ec19311fd9b8cf9909e25050dba3
UPSTREAM: arm64: alternative: add auto-nop infrastructure

In some cases, one side of an alternative sequence is simply a number of
NOPs used to balance the other side. Keeping track of this manually is
tedious, and the presence of large chains of NOPs makes the code more
painful to read than necessary.

To ameliorate matters, this patch adds a new alternative_else_nop_endif,
which automatically balances an alternative sequence with a trivial NOP
sled.

In many cases, we would like a NOP-sled in the default case, and
instructions patched in in the presence of a feature. To enable the NOPs
to be generated automatically for this case, this patch also adds a new
alternative_if, and updates alternative_else and alternative_endif to
work with either alternative_if or alternative_endif.

Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Martin <dave.martin@arm.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
[will: use new nops macro to generate nop sequences]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Bug: 31432001
Change-Id: I28d8aae073e113048577c41cfe27c91215fb4cf3
(cherry picked from commit 792d47379f4d4c76692f1795f33d38582f8907fa)
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative.h