Julien Grall writes: > From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutl...@arm.com> > > In some cases, one side of an alternative sequence is simply a number of > NOPs used to balance the other side. Keeping track of this manually is > tedious, and the presence of large chains of NOPs makes the code more > painful to read than necessary. > > To ameliorate matters, this patch adds a new alternative_else_nop_endif, > which automatically balances an alternative sequence with a trivial NOP > sled. > > In many cases, we would like a NOP-sled in the default case, and > instructions patched in in the presence of a feature. To enable the NOPs > to be generated automatically for this case, this patch also adds a new > alternative_if, and updates alternative_else and alternative_endif to > work with either alternative_if or alternative_endif. > > The alternative infrastructure was originally ported from Linux. So this > is pretty much a straight backport from commit 792d47379f4d "arm64: > alternative: add auto-nop infrastructure". The only difference is the > nops macro added as not yet existing in Xen. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutl...@arm.com> > [will: use new nops macro to generate nop sequences] > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com> > [julien: Add nops and port to Xen] > Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.gr...@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Volodymyr Babchuk <volodymyr_babc...@epam.com>
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