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2014-11-26arm64: jump labels: NOP out NOP -> NOP replacementMark Rutland1-14/+9
In the arm64 arch_static_branch implementation we place an A64 NOP into the instruction stream and log relevant details to a jump_entry in a __jump_table section. Later this may be replaced with an immediate branch without link to the code for the unlikely case. At init time, the core calls arch_jump_label_transform_static to initialise the NOPs. On x86 this involves inserting the optimal NOP for a given microarchitecture, but on arm64 we only use the architectural NOP, and hence replace each NOP with the exact same NOP. This is somewhat pointless. Additionally, at module load time we don't call jump_label_apply_nops to patch the optimal NOPs in, unlike other architectures, but get away with this because we only use the architectural NOP anyway. A later notifier will patch NOPs with branches as required. Similarly to x86 commit 11570da1c5b1dee1 (x86/jump-label: Do not bother updating NOPs if they are correct), we can avoid patching NOPs with identical NOPs. Given that we only use a single NOP encoding, this means we can NOP-out the body of arch_jump_label_transform_static entirely. As the default __weak arch_jump_label_transform_static implementation performs a patch, we must use an empty function to achieve this. Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com> Cc: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2014-01-08arm64, jump label: optimize jump label implementationJiang Liu1-0/+58
Optimize jump label implementation for ARM64 by dynamically patching kernel text. Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>