On Mon, 2018-07-23 at 15:07:52 UTC, Michael Ellerman wrote: > 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 <m...@ellerman.id.au>
Series applied to powerpc next. https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/06d0bbc6d0f56dacac3a79900e9a9a cheers