x86/alternatives: Document macros

Add some text to the macro magic for future reference and against
failing human memory.
Requested-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NBorislav 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: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

arch/x86/include/asm/alternative-asm.h

@@ -18,6 +18,12 @@
 	.endm
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * Issue one struct alt_instr descriptor entry (need to put it into
+ * the section .altinstructions, see below). This entry contains
+ * enough information for the alternatives patching code to patch an
+ * instruction. See apply_alternatives().
+ */
 .macro altinstruction_entry orig alt feature orig_len alt_len pad_len
 	.long \orig - .
 	.long \alt - .
@@ -27,6 +33,12 @@
 	.byte \pad_len
 .endm
 
+/*
+ * Define an alternative between two instructions. If @feature is
+ * present, early code in apply_alternatives() replaces @oldinstr with
+ * @newinstr. ".skip" directive takes care of proper instruction padding
+ * in case @newinstr is longer than @oldinstr.
+ */
 .macro ALTERNATIVE oldinstr, newinstr, feature
 140:
 	\oldinstr
@@ -55,6 +67,12 @@
  */
 #define alt_max_short(a, b)	((a) ^ (((a) ^ (b)) & -(-((a) < (b)))))
 
+
+/*
+ * Same as ALTERNATIVE macro above but for two alternatives. If CPU
+ * has @feature1, it replaces @oldinstr with @newinstr1. If CPU has
+ * @feature2, it replaces @oldinstr with @feature2.
+ */
 .macro ALTERNATIVE_2 oldinstr, newinstr1, feature1, newinstr2, feature2
 140:
 	\oldinstr