This save a few bytes on x86-64 and means that future patches can
apply alternatives to unrelocated code.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ff64a6b9a1a3860ca4a7b8b6dc7b4754f9491cd7.1310563276.git.luto@mit.eduSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

Add altinstruction_entry macro to generate .altinstructions section
entries from assembly code.  This should be less failure-prone than
open-coding.
Signed-off-by: NFenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-5-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.comSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

Reduce the SMP locks table size by using relative pointers instead of
absolute ones, thus cutting the table size by half.
Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BCF30FE020000780003B3B6@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

This at once also gets the alignment specification right for
x86-64.
Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0FF8F80200007800022708@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

.i is an ending used for preprocessed stuff.

This patch therefore renames assembler include files to .h and guards
the contents with an #ifdef __ASSEMBLY__.

[ tglx: arch/x86 adaptation ]
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>