[tip: x86/alternatives] x86/alternatives: Remove the mixed-patching restriction on smp_text_poke_single()

From: tip-bot2 for Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Apr 11 2025 - 06:05:12 EST


The following commit has been merged into the x86/alternatives branch of tip:

Commit-ID: 8a6a1b4e0ef15dab908a365588e06f23f9c0bad5
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/8a6a1b4e0ef15dab908a365588e06f23f9c0bad5
Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 07:40:48 +02:00
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 11:01:34 +02:00

x86/alternatives: Remove the mixed-patching restriction on smp_text_poke_single()

At this point smp_text_poke_single(addr, opcode, len, emulate) is equivalent to:

smp_text_poke_batch_add(addr, opcode, len, emulate);
smp_text_poke_batch_finish();

So remove the restriction on mixing single-instruction patching
with multi-instruction patching.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250411054105.2341982-37-mingo@xxxxxxxxxx
---
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index eb0da27..f0bb215 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -2892,9 +2892,6 @@ void __ref smp_text_poke_batch_add(void *addr, const void *opcode, size_t len, c
*/
void __ref smp_text_poke_single(void *addr, const void *opcode, size_t len, const void *emulate)
{
- /* Batch-patching should not be mixed with single-patching: */
- WARN_ON_ONCE(text_poke_array.nr_entries != 0);
-
__smp_text_poke_batch_add(addr, opcode, len, emulate);
smp_text_poke_batch_finish();
}