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Due to the way we use alternatives in the irqflags code, even when
CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI=n, we generate unused alternative code for
pseudo-NMI management. This patch reworks the irqflags code to remove
the redundant code when CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI=n, which benefits the
more common case, and will permit further rework of our DAIF management
(e.g. in preparation for ARMv8.8-A's NMI feature).
Prior to this patch a defconfig kernel has hundreds of redundant
instructions to access ICC_PMR_EL1 (which should only need to be
manipulated in setup code), which this patch removes:
| [mark@lakrids:~/src/linux]% usekorg 12.1.0 aarch64-linux-objdump -d vmlinux-before-defconfig | grep icc_pmr_el1 | wc -l
| 885
| [mark@lakrids:~/src/linux]% usekorg 12.1.0 aarch64-linux-objdump -d vmlinux-after-defconfig | grep icc_pmr_el1 | wc -l
| 5
Those instructions alone account for more than 3KiB of kernel text, and
will be associated with additional alt_instr entries, padding and
branches, etc.
These redundant instructions exist because we use alternative sequences
for to choose between DAIF / PMR management in irqflags.h, and even when
CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI=n, those alternative sequences will generate the
code for PMR management, along with alt_instr entries. We use
alternatives here as this was necessary to ensure that we never
encounter a mismatched local_irq_save() ... local_irq_restore() sequence
in the middle of patching, which was possible to see if we used static
keys to choose between DAIF and PMR management.
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