[RFC PATCH 1/4] x86/alternatives: Add macro comments
From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Dec 11 2018 - 17:23:41 EST
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
... so that when one stares at the .s output, one can find her way
around the resulting asm magic.
For example, ALTERNATIVE looks like this now:
# ALT: oldnstr
661:
...
662:
# ALT: padding
.skip ...
663:
.pushsection .altinstructions,"a"
...
.popsection
.pushsection .altinstr_replacement, "ax"
# ALT: replacement 1
6641:
...
6651:
.popsection
Merge __OLDINSTR() into OLDINSTR(), while at it.
No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h | 16 +++++++++-------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
index d7faa16622d8..8d38b296a18a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
@@ -87,13 +87,12 @@ static inline int alternatives_text_reserved(void *start, void *end)
#define alt_total_slen alt_end_marker"b-661b"
#define alt_rlen(num) e_replacement(num)"f-"b_replacement(num)"f"
-#define __OLDINSTR(oldinstr, num) \
+#define OLDINSTR(oldinstr, num) \
+ "# ALT: oldnstr\n" \
"661:\n\t" oldinstr "\n662:\n" \
+ "# ALT: padding\n" \
".skip -(((" alt_rlen(num) ")-(" alt_slen ")) > 0) * " \
- "((" alt_rlen(num) ")-(" alt_slen ")),0x90\n"
-
-#define OLDINSTR(oldinstr, num) \
- __OLDINSTR(oldinstr, num) \
+ "((" alt_rlen(num) ")-(" alt_slen ")),0x90\n" \
alt_end_marker ":\n"
/*
@@ -109,7 +108,9 @@ static inline int alternatives_text_reserved(void *start, void *end)
* additionally longer than the first replacement alternative.
*/
#define OLDINSTR_2(oldinstr, num1, num2) \
+ "# ALT: oldinstr2\n" \
"661:\n\t" oldinstr "\n662:\n" \
+ "# ALT: padding2\n" \
".skip -((" alt_max_short(alt_rlen(num1), alt_rlen(num2)) " - (" alt_slen ")) > 0) * " \
"(" alt_max_short(alt_rlen(num1), alt_rlen(num2)) " - (" alt_slen ")), 0x90\n" \
alt_end_marker ":\n"
@@ -122,8 +123,9 @@ static inline int alternatives_text_reserved(void *start, void *end)
" .byte " alt_rlen(num) "\n" /* replacement len */ \
" .byte " alt_pad_len "\n" /* pad len */
-#define ALTINSTR_REPLACEMENT(newinstr, feature, num) /* replacement */ \
- b_replacement(num)":\n\t" newinstr "\n" e_replacement(num) ":\n\t"
+#define ALTINSTR_REPLACEMENT(newinstr, feature, num) /* replacement */ \
+ "# ALT: replacement " #num "\n" \
+ b_replacement(num)":\n\t" newinstr "\n" e_replacement(num) ":\n"
/* alternative assembly primitive: */
#define ALTERNATIVE(oldinstr, newinstr, feature) \
--
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