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Author SHA1 Message Date
H. Peter Anvin
76f30759f6 x86, alternative: Add header guards to <asm/alternative-asm.h>
Add header guards to protect <asm/alternative-asm.h> against multiple
inclusion.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1348256595-29119-6-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
2012-09-21 12:45:26 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
9cebed423c x86, alternative: Use .pushsection/.popsection
.section/.previous doesn't nest.  Use .pushsection/.popsection in
<asm/alternative.h> so that they can be properly nested.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1348256595-29119-5-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
2012-09-21 12:45:25 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
ceb7b40b65 x86: Fix atomic64_xxx_cx8() functions
It appears about all functions in arch/x86/lib/atomic64_cx8_32.S
are wrong in case cmpxchg8b must be restarted, because
LOCK_PREFIX macro defines a label "1" clashing with other local
labels :

1:
	some_instructions
	LOCK_PREFIX
	cmpxchg8b (%ebp)
	jne 1b  / jumps to beginning of LOCK_PREFIX !

A possible fix is to use a magic label "672" in LOCK_PREFIX asm
definition, similar to the "671" one we defined in
LOCK_PREFIX_HERE.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1325608540.2320.103.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-01-04 15:01:56 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
a7f934d4f1 asm alternatives: remove incorrect alignment notes
On x86-64, they were just wasteful: with the explicitly added (now
unnecessary) padding, the size of the alternatives structure was 16
bytes, and an alignment of 8 bytes didn't hurt much.

However, it was still silly, since the natural size and alignment for
the structure is actually just 12 bytes, 4-byte aligned since commit
59e97e4d6f ("x86: Make alternative instruction pointers relative").
So removing the padding, and removing the extra alignment is just a good
idea.

On x86-32, the alignment of 4 bytes was correct, but was incorrectly
hardcoded as 8 bytes in <asm/alternative-asm.h>.  That header file had
used to be an x86-64 only header file, but various unification efforts
have made it be used for x86-32 too (ie the unification of rwlock and
rwsem).

That in turn caused x86-32 boot failures, because the extra alignment
would result in random zero-filled words in the altinstructions section,
causing oopses early at boot when doing alternative instruction
replacement.

So just remove all the alignment noise entirely.  It's wrong, and it's
unnecessary.  The section itself is already properly aligned by the
linker scripts, and all additions to the section had better be of the
proper 12-byte format, keeping it aligned.  So if the align directive
were to ever make a difference, that would be an indication of a serious
bug to begin with.

Reported-by: Werner Landgraf <w.landgraf@ru.r>
Acked-by: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-15 13:28:33 -07:00
Andy Lutomirski
59e97e4d6f x86: Make alternative instruction pointers relative
This save a few bytes on x86-64 and means that future patches can
apply alternatives to unrelocated code.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ff64a6b9a1a3860ca4a7b8b6dc7b4754f9491cd7.1310563276.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-07-13 11:22:56 -07:00
Fenghua Yu
9072d11da1 x86, alternative: Add altinstruction_entry macro
Add altinstruction_entry macro to generate .altinstructions section
entries from assembly code.  This should be less failure-prone than
open-coding.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-5-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-05-17 15:40:25 -07:00
Jan Beulich
5967ed87ad x86-64: Reduce SMP locks table size
Reduce the SMP locks table size by using relative pointers instead of
absolute ones, thus cutting the table size by half.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BCF30FE020000780003B3B6@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-04-28 17:15:47 -07:00
Jan Beulich
99063c0bce x86/alternatives: No need for alternatives-asm.h to re-invent stuff already in asm.h
This at once also gets the alignment specification right for
x86-64.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0FF8F80200007800022708@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-02 11:39:45 +01:00
Al Viro
bb8985586b x86, um: ... and asm-x86 move
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-10-22 22:55:20 -07:00