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Message-ID: <tip-9072d11da15a71e086eab3b5085184f2c1d06913@git.kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 20:41:24 GMT
From: tip-bot for Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
To: linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...hat.com,
fenghua.yu@...el.com, tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...ux.intel.com
Subject: [tip:perf/core] x86, alternative: Add altinstruction_entry macro
Commit-ID: 9072d11da15a71e086eab3b5085184f2c1d06913
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/9072d11da15a71e086eab3b5085184f2c1d06913
Author: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
AuthorDate: Tue, 17 May 2011 15:29:13 -0700
Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
CommitDate: Tue, 17 May 2011 15:40:25 -0700
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@...el.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-5-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/alternative-asm.h | 9 +++++++++
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative-asm.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative-asm.h
index a63a68b..94d420b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative-asm.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative-asm.h
@@ -15,4 +15,13 @@
.endm
#endif
+.macro altinstruction_entry orig alt feature orig_len alt_len
+ .align 8
+ .quad \orig
+ .quad \alt
+ .word \feature
+ .byte \orig_len
+ .byte \alt_len
+.endm
+
#endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
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