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Vasily Gorbik b44533a06f s390: introduce CPU alternatives
[ Upstream commit 686140a1a9 ]

Implement CPU alternatives, which allows to optionally patch newer
instructions at runtime, based on CPU facilities availability.

A new kernel boot parameter "noaltinstr" disables patching.

Current implementation is derived from x86 alternatives. Although
ideal instructions padding (when altinstr is longer then oldinstr)
is added at compile time, and no oldinstr nops optimization has to be
done at runtime. Also couple of compile time sanity checks are done:
1. oldinstr and altinstr must be <= 254 bytes long,
2. oldinstr and altinstr must not have an odd length.

alternative(oldinstr, altinstr, facility);
alternative_2(oldinstr, altinstr1, facility1, altinstr2, facility2);

Both compile time and runtime padding consists of either 6/4/2 bytes nop
or a jump (brcl) + 2 bytes nop filler if padding is longer then 6 bytes.

.altinstructions and .altinstr_replacement sections are part of
__init_begin : __init_end region and are freed after initialization.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2018-04-29 11:33:14 +02:00
arch s390: introduce CPU alternatives 2018-04-29 11:33:14 +02:00
block blk-mq: fix discard merge with scheduler attached 2018-04-26 11:02:15 +02:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto crypto: aes-generic - build with -Os on gcc-7+ 2018-04-12 12:32:20 +02:00
Documentation s390: introduce CPU alternatives 2018-04-29 11:33:14 +02:00
drivers virtio_net: fix adding vids on big-endian 2018-04-29 11:33:14 +02:00
firmware License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
fs vfs/proc/kcore, x86/mm/kcore: Fix SMAP fault when dumping vsyscall user page 2018-04-26 11:02:20 +02:00
include net: sched: ife: handle malformed tlv length 2018-04-29 11:33:13 +02:00
init kmemcheck: stop using GFP_NOTRACK and SLAB_NOTRACK 2018-02-22 15:42:23 +01:00
ipc ipc/shm: fix use-after-free of shm file via remap_file_pages() 2018-04-24 09:36:23 +02:00
kernel perf: Return proper values for user stack errors 2018-04-26 11:02:22 +02:00
lib bpf: fix selftests/bpf test_kmod.sh failure when CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON=y 2018-04-26 11:02:16 +02:00
mm mm/fadvise: discard partial page if endbyte is also EOF 2018-04-26 11:02:15 +02:00
net llc: fix NULL pointer deref for SOCK_ZAPPED 2018-04-29 11:33:13 +02:00
samples samples/bpf: Partially fixes the bpf.o build 2018-04-26 11:02:12 +02:00
scripts kconfig: Fix expr_free() E_NOT leak 2018-04-26 11:02:08 +02:00
security apparmor: fix resource audit messages when auditing peer 2018-04-19 08:56:18 +02:00
sound ASoC: rockchip: Use dummy_dai for rt5514 dsp dailink 2018-04-26 11:02:11 +02:00
tools perf test: Fix test trace+probe_libc_inet_pton.sh for s390x 2018-04-26 11:02:20 +02:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt kvm: Map PFN-type memory regions as writable (if possible) 2018-04-26 11:02:13 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: keep spec file until make mrproper 2018-02-13 10:19:46 +01:00
.mailmap .mailmap: Add Maciej W. Rozycki's Imagination e-mail address 2017-11-10 12:16:15 -08:00
COPYING [PATCH] update FSF address in COPYING 2005-09-10 10:06:29 -07:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS dt-bindings: Document mti,mips-cpc binding 2018-03-15 10:54:35 +01:00
Makefile Linux 4.14.37 2018-04-26 11:02:22 +02:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.