arm64: alternatives: Add dynamic patching feature
We've so far relied on a patching infrastructure that only gave us a single alternative, without any way to provide a range of potential replacement instructions. For a single feature, this is an all or nothing thing. It would be interesting to have a more flexible grained way of patching the kernel though, where we could dynamically tune the code that gets injected. In order to achive this, let's introduce a new form of dynamic patching, assiciating a callback to a patching site. This callback gets source and target locations of the patching request, as well as the number of instructions to be patched. Dynamic patching is declared with the new ALTERNATIVE_CB and alternative_cb directives: asm volatile(ALTERNATIVE_CB("mov %0, #0\n", callback) : "r" (v)); or alternative_cb callback mov x0, #0 alternative_cb_end where callback is the C function computing the alternative. Reviewed-by: NChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: NMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
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