x86/alternatives: Discard dynamic check after init
authorBrian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Wed, 27 Jan 2016 08:45:25 +0000 (09:45 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Sat, 30 Jan 2016 10:22:22 +0000 (11:22 +0100)
commit2476f2fa20568bd5d9e09cd35bcd73e99a6f4cc6
tree914ba0b64d30ed00dbf0c6994d8f1d28f2245427
parent337e4cc84021212a87b04b77b65cccc49304909e
x86/alternatives: Discard dynamic check after init

Move the code to do the dynamic check to the altinstr_aux
section so that it is discarded after alternatives have run and
a static branch has been chosen.

This way we're changing the dynamic branch from C code to
assembly, which makes it *substantially* smaller while avoiding
a completely unnecessary call to an out of line function.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
[ Changed it to do TESTB, as hpa suggested. ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452972124-7380-1-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160127084525.GC30712@pd.tnic
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
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