[PATCH stable v4.4 39/52] powerpc/asm: Add a patch_site macro & helpers for patching instructions

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Mon Apr 22 00:20:24 AEST 2019


commit 06d0bbc6d0f56dacac3a79900e9a9a0d5972d818 upstream.

Add a macro and some helper C functions for patching single asm
instructions.

The gas macro means we can do something like:

  1:	nop
  	patch_site 1b, patch__foo

Which is less visually distracting than defining a GLOBAL symbol at 1,
and also doesn't pollute the symbol table which can confuse eg. perf.

These are obviously similar to our existing feature sections, but are
not automatically patched based on CPU/MMU features, rather they are
designed to be manually patched by C code at some arbitrary point.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching-asm.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h     |  2 ++
 arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c             | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 36 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching-asm.h

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching-asm.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching-asm.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ed7b1448493a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching-asm.h
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ */
+/*
+ * Copyright 2018, Michael Ellerman, IBM Corporation.
+ */
+#ifndef _ASM_POWERPC_CODE_PATCHING_ASM_H
+#define _ASM_POWERPC_CODE_PATCHING_ASM_H
+
+/* Define a "site" that can be patched */
+.macro patch_site label name
+	.pushsection ".rodata"
+	.balign 4
+	.global \name
+\name:
+	.4byte	\label - .
+	.popsection
+.endm
+
+#endif /* _ASM_POWERPC_CODE_PATCHING_ASM_H */
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h
index 840a5509b3f1..a734b4b34d26 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ unsigned int create_cond_branch(const unsigned int *addr,
 				unsigned long target, int flags);
 int patch_branch(unsigned int *addr, unsigned long target, int flags);
 int patch_instruction(unsigned int *addr, unsigned int instr);
+int patch_instruction_site(s32 *addr, unsigned int instr);
+int patch_branch_site(s32 *site, unsigned long target, int flags);
 
 int instr_is_relative_branch(unsigned int instr);
 int instr_is_branch_to_addr(const unsigned int *instr, unsigned long addr);
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c b/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
index d5edbeb8eb82..2ce6159d8983 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
@@ -32,6 +32,22 @@ int patch_branch(unsigned int *addr, unsigned long target, int flags)
 	return patch_instruction(addr, create_branch(addr, target, flags));
 }
 
+int patch_branch_site(s32 *site, unsigned long target, int flags)
+{
+	unsigned int *addr;
+
+	addr = (unsigned int *)((unsigned long)site + *site);
+	return patch_instruction(addr, create_branch(addr, target, flags));
+}
+
+int patch_instruction_site(s32 *site, unsigned int instr)
+{
+	unsigned int *addr;
+
+	addr = (unsigned int *)((unsigned long)site + *site);
+	return patch_instruction(addr, instr);
+}
+
 unsigned int create_branch(const unsigned int *addr,
 			   unsigned long target, int flags)
 {
-- 
2.20.1



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