x86/alternatives: Add an auxilary section

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Add .altinstr_aux for additional instructions which will be used
before and/or during patching. All stuff which needs more
sophisticated patching should go there. See next patch.

Signed-off-by: Borislav 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: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453842730-28463-8-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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Borislav Petkov 2016-01-26 22:12:07 +01:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar

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