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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/arm64/kernel/alternative.c, branch v6.4</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>arm64: alternatives: add __init/__initconst to some functions/variables</title>
<updated>2022-12-05T13:47:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jisheng Zhang</name>
<email>jszhang@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-02T16:18:59+00:00</published>
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apply_alternatives_vdso(), __apply_alternatives_multi_stop() and
kernel_alternatives are not needed after booting, so mark the two
functions as __init and the var as __initconst.

Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang &lt;jszhang@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221202161859.2228-1-jszhang@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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apply_alternatives_vdso(), __apply_alternatives_multi_stop() and
kernel_alternatives are not needed after booting, so mark the two
functions as __init and the var as __initconst.

Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang &lt;jszhang@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221202161859.2228-1-jszhang@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: alternatives: make apply_alternatives_vdso() static</title>
<updated>2022-11-18T14:17:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-17T13:16:50+00:00</published>
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We define and use apply_alternatives_vdso() within alternative.c, and
don't provide a prototype in a header. There's no need for it to be
visible outside of alternative.c, so mark it as static.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Joey Gouly &lt;joey.gouly@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221117131650.4056636-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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We define and use apply_alternatives_vdso() within alternative.c, and
don't provide a prototype in a header. There's no need for it to be
visible outside of alternative.c, so mark it as static.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Joey Gouly &lt;joey.gouly@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221117131650.4056636-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2022-10-06T18:51:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-06T18:51:49+00:00</published>
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Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:

 - arm64 perf: DDR PMU driver for Alibaba's T-Head Yitian 710 SoC, SVE
   vector granule register added to the user regs together with SVE perf
   extensions documentation.

 - SVE updates: add HWCAP for SVE EBF16, update the SVE ABI
   documentation to match the actual kernel behaviour (zeroing the
   registers on syscall rather than "zeroed or preserved" previously).

 - More conversions to automatic system registers generation.

 - vDSO: use self-synchronising virtual counter access in gettimeofday()
   if the architecture supports it.

 - arm64 stacktrace cleanups and improvements.

 - arm64 atomics improvements: always inline assembly, remove LL/SC
   trampolines.

 - Improve the reporting of EL1 exceptions: rework BTI and FPAC
   exception handling, better EL1 undefs reporting.

 - Cortex-A510 erratum 2658417: remove BF16 support due to incorrect
   result.

 - arm64 defconfig updates: build CoreSight as a module, enable options
   necessary for docker, memory hotplug/hotremove, enable all PMUs
   provided by Arm.

 - arm64 ptrace() support for TPIDR2_EL0 (register provided with the SME
   extensions).

 - arm64 ftraces updates/fixes: fix module PLTs with mcount, remove
   unused function.

 - kselftest updates for arm64: simple HWCAP validation, FP stress test
   improvements, validation of ZA regs in signal handlers, include
   larger SVE and SME vector lengths in signal tests, various cleanups.

 - arm64 alternatives (code patching) improvements to robustness and
   consistency: replace cpucap static branches with equivalent
   alternatives, associate callback alternatives with a cpucap.

 - Miscellaneous updates: optimise kprobe performance of patching
   single-step slots, simplify uaccess_mask_ptr(), move MTE registers
   initialisation to C, support huge vmalloc() mappings, run softirqs on
   the per-CPU IRQ stack, compat (arm32) misalignment fixups for
   multiword accesses.

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (126 commits)
  arm64: alternatives: Use vdso/bits.h instead of linux/bits.h
  arm64/kprobe: Optimize the performance of patching single-step slot
  arm64: defconfig: Add Coresight as module
  kselftest/arm64: Handle EINTR while reading data from children
  kselftest/arm64: Flag fp-stress as exiting when we begin finishing up
  kselftest/arm64: Don't repeat termination handler for fp-stress
  ARM64: reloc_test: add __init/__exit annotations to module init/exit funcs
  arm64/mm: fold check for KFENCE into can_set_direct_map()
  arm64: ftrace: fix module PLTs with mcount
  arm64: module: Remove unused plt_entry_is_initialized()
  arm64: module: Make plt_equals_entry() static
  arm64: fix the build with binutils 2.27
  kselftest/arm64: Don't enable v8.5 for MTE selftest builds
  arm64: uaccess: simplify uaccess_mask_ptr()
  arm64: asm/perf_regs.h: Avoid C++-style comment in UAPI header
  kselftest/arm64: Fix typo in hwcap check
  arm64: mte: move register initialization to C
  arm64: mm: handle ARM64_KERNEL_USES_PMD_MAPS in vmemmap_populate()
  arm64: dma: Drop cache invalidation from arch_dma_prep_coherent()
  arm64/sve: Add Perf extensions documentation
  ...
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Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:

 - arm64 perf: DDR PMU driver for Alibaba's T-Head Yitian 710 SoC, SVE
   vector granule register added to the user regs together with SVE perf
   extensions documentation.

 - SVE updates: add HWCAP for SVE EBF16, update the SVE ABI
   documentation to match the actual kernel behaviour (zeroing the
   registers on syscall rather than "zeroed or preserved" previously).

 - More conversions to automatic system registers generation.

 - vDSO: use self-synchronising virtual counter access in gettimeofday()
   if the architecture supports it.

 - arm64 stacktrace cleanups and improvements.

 - arm64 atomics improvements: always inline assembly, remove LL/SC
   trampolines.

 - Improve the reporting of EL1 exceptions: rework BTI and FPAC
   exception handling, better EL1 undefs reporting.

 - Cortex-A510 erratum 2658417: remove BF16 support due to incorrect
   result.

 - arm64 defconfig updates: build CoreSight as a module, enable options
   necessary for docker, memory hotplug/hotremove, enable all PMUs
   provided by Arm.

 - arm64 ptrace() support for TPIDR2_EL0 (register provided with the SME
   extensions).

 - arm64 ftraces updates/fixes: fix module PLTs with mcount, remove
   unused function.

 - kselftest updates for arm64: simple HWCAP validation, FP stress test
   improvements, validation of ZA regs in signal handlers, include
   larger SVE and SME vector lengths in signal tests, various cleanups.

 - arm64 alternatives (code patching) improvements to robustness and
   consistency: replace cpucap static branches with equivalent
   alternatives, associate callback alternatives with a cpucap.

 - Miscellaneous updates: optimise kprobe performance of patching
   single-step slots, simplify uaccess_mask_ptr(), move MTE registers
   initialisation to C, support huge vmalloc() mappings, run softirqs on
   the per-CPU IRQ stack, compat (arm32) misalignment fixups for
   multiword accesses.

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (126 commits)
  arm64: alternatives: Use vdso/bits.h instead of linux/bits.h
  arm64/kprobe: Optimize the performance of patching single-step slot
  arm64: defconfig: Add Coresight as module
  kselftest/arm64: Handle EINTR while reading data from children
  kselftest/arm64: Flag fp-stress as exiting when we begin finishing up
  kselftest/arm64: Don't repeat termination handler for fp-stress
  ARM64: reloc_test: add __init/__exit annotations to module init/exit funcs
  arm64/mm: fold check for KFENCE into can_set_direct_map()
  arm64: ftrace: fix module PLTs with mcount
  arm64: module: Remove unused plt_entry_is_initialized()
  arm64: module: Make plt_equals_entry() static
  arm64: fix the build with binutils 2.27
  kselftest/arm64: Don't enable v8.5 for MTE selftest builds
  arm64: uaccess: simplify uaccess_mask_ptr()
  arm64: asm/perf_regs.h: Avoid C++-style comment in UAPI header
  kselftest/arm64: Fix typo in hwcap check
  arm64: mte: move register initialization to C
  arm64: mm: handle ARM64_KERNEL_USES_PMD_MAPS in vmemmap_populate()
  arm64: dma: Drop cache invalidation from arch_dma_prep_coherent()
  arm64/sve: Add Perf extensions documentation
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-next/alternatives' into for-next/core</title>
<updated>2022-09-30T08:18:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-30T08:18:22+00:00</published>
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* for-next/alternatives:
  : Alternatives (code patching) improvements
  arm64: fix the build with binutils 2.27
  arm64: avoid BUILD_BUG_ON() in alternative-macros
  arm64: alternatives: add shared NOP callback
  arm64: alternatives: add alternative_has_feature_*()
  arm64: alternatives: have callbacks take a cap
  arm64: alternatives: make alt_region const
  arm64: alternatives: hoist print out of __apply_alternatives()
  arm64: alternatives: proton-pack: prepare for cap changes
  arm64: alternatives: kvm: prepare for cap changes
  arm64: cpufeature: make cpus_have_cap() noinstr-safe
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* for-next/alternatives:
  : Alternatives (code patching) improvements
  arm64: fix the build with binutils 2.27
  arm64: avoid BUILD_BUG_ON() in alternative-macros
  arm64: alternatives: add shared NOP callback
  arm64: alternatives: add alternative_has_feature_*()
  arm64: alternatives: have callbacks take a cap
  arm64: alternatives: make alt_region const
  arm64: alternatives: hoist print out of __apply_alternatives()
  arm64: alternatives: proton-pack: prepare for cap changes
  arm64: alternatives: kvm: prepare for cap changes
  arm64: cpufeature: make cpus_have_cap() noinstr-safe
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Drop unneeded __nocfi attributes</title>
<updated>2022-09-26T17:13:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sami Tolvanen</name>
<email>samitolvanen@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-08T21:54:53+00:00</published>
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With -fsanitize=kcfi, CONFIG_CFI_CLANG no longer has issues
with address space confusion in functions that switch to linear
mapping. Now that the indirectly called assembly functions have
type annotations, drop the __nocfi attributes.

Suggested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220908215504.3686827-12-samitolvanen@google.com
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With -fsanitize=kcfi, CONFIG_CFI_CLANG no longer has issues
with address space confusion in functions that switch to linear
mapping. Now that the indirectly called assembly functions have
type annotations, drop the __nocfi attributes.

Suggested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220908215504.3686827-12-samitolvanen@google.com
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: alternatives: add shared NOP callback</title>
<updated>2022-09-16T16:15:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-12T16:22:10+00:00</published>
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For each instance of an alternative, the compiler outputs a distinct
copy of the alternative instructions into a subsection. As the compiler
doesn't have special knowledge of alternatives, it cannot coalesce these
to save space.

In a defconfig kernel built with GCC 12.1.0, there are approximately
10,000 instances of alternative_has_feature_likely(), where the
replacement instruction is always a NOP. As NOPs are
position-independent, we don't need a unique copy per alternative
sequence.

This patch adds a callback to patch an alternative sequence with NOPs,
and make use of this in alternative_has_feature_likely(). So that this
can be used for other sites in future, this is written to patch multiple
instructions up to the original sequence length.

For NVHE, an alias is added to image-vars.h.

For modules, the callback is exported. Note that as modules are loaded
within 2GiB of the kernel, an alt_instr entry in a module can always
refer directly to the callback, and no special handling is necessary.

When building with GCC 12.1.0, the vmlinux is ~158KiB smaller, though
the resulting Image size is unchanged due to alignment constraints and
padding:

| % ls -al vmlinux-*
| -rwxr-xr-x 1 mark mark 134644592 Sep  1 14:52 vmlinux-after
| -rwxr-xr-x 1 mark mark 134486232 Sep  1 14:50 vmlinux-before
| % ls -al Image-*
| -rw-r--r-- 1 mark mark 37108224 Sep  1 14:52 Image-after
| -rw-r--r-- 1 mark mark 37108224 Sep  1 14:50 Image-before

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Joey Gouly &lt;joey.gouly@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220912162210.3626215-9-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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For each instance of an alternative, the compiler outputs a distinct
copy of the alternative instructions into a subsection. As the compiler
doesn't have special knowledge of alternatives, it cannot coalesce these
to save space.

In a defconfig kernel built with GCC 12.1.0, there are approximately
10,000 instances of alternative_has_feature_likely(), where the
replacement instruction is always a NOP. As NOPs are
position-independent, we don't need a unique copy per alternative
sequence.

This patch adds a callback to patch an alternative sequence with NOPs,
and make use of this in alternative_has_feature_likely(). So that this
can be used for other sites in future, this is written to patch multiple
instructions up to the original sequence length.

For NVHE, an alias is added to image-vars.h.

For modules, the callback is exported. Note that as modules are loaded
within 2GiB of the kernel, an alt_instr entry in a module can always
refer directly to the callback, and no special handling is necessary.

When building with GCC 12.1.0, the vmlinux is ~158KiB smaller, though
the resulting Image size is unchanged due to alignment constraints and
padding:

| % ls -al vmlinux-*
| -rwxr-xr-x 1 mark mark 134644592 Sep  1 14:52 vmlinux-after
| -rwxr-xr-x 1 mark mark 134486232 Sep  1 14:50 vmlinux-before
| % ls -al Image-*
| -rw-r--r-- 1 mark mark 37108224 Sep  1 14:52 Image-after
| -rw-r--r-- 1 mark mark 37108224 Sep  1 14:50 Image-before

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Joey Gouly &lt;joey.gouly@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220912162210.3626215-9-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: alternatives: have callbacks take a cap</title>
<updated>2022-09-16T16:15:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-12T16:22:08+00:00</published>
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Today, callback alternatives are special-cased within
__apply_alternatives(), and are applied alongside patching for system
capabilities as ARM64_NCAPS is not part of the boot_capabilities feature
mask.

This special-casing is less than ideal. Giving special meaning to
ARM64_NCAPS for this requires some structures and loops to use
ARM64_NCAPS + 1 (AKA ARM64_NPATCHABLE), while others use ARM64_NCAPS.
It's also not immediately clear callback alternatives are only applied
when applying alternatives for system-wide features.

To make this a bit clearer, changes the way that callback alternatives
are identified to remove the special-casing of ARM64_NCAPS, and to allow
callback alternatives to be associated with a cpucap as with all other
alternatives.

New cpucaps, ARM64_ALWAYS_BOOT and ARM64_ALWAYS_SYSTEM are added which
are always detected alongside boot cpu capabilities and system
capabilities respectively. All existing callback alternatives are made
to use ARM64_ALWAYS_SYSTEM, and so will be patched at the same point
during the boot flow as before.

Subsequent patches will make more use of these new cpucaps.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Joey Gouly &lt;joey.gouly@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220912162210.3626215-7-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Today, callback alternatives are special-cased within
__apply_alternatives(), and are applied alongside patching for system
capabilities as ARM64_NCAPS is not part of the boot_capabilities feature
mask.

This special-casing is less than ideal. Giving special meaning to
ARM64_NCAPS for this requires some structures and loops to use
ARM64_NCAPS + 1 (AKA ARM64_NPATCHABLE), while others use ARM64_NCAPS.
It's also not immediately clear callback alternatives are only applied
when applying alternatives for system-wide features.

To make this a bit clearer, changes the way that callback alternatives
are identified to remove the special-casing of ARM64_NCAPS, and to allow
callback alternatives to be associated with a cpucap as with all other
alternatives.

New cpucaps, ARM64_ALWAYS_BOOT and ARM64_ALWAYS_SYSTEM are added which
are always detected alongside boot cpu capabilities and system
capabilities respectively. All existing callback alternatives are made
to use ARM64_ALWAYS_SYSTEM, and so will be patched at the same point
during the boot flow as before.

Subsequent patches will make more use of these new cpucaps.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Joey Gouly &lt;joey.gouly@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220912162210.3626215-7-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: alternatives: make alt_region const</title>
<updated>2022-09-16T16:15:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
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<published>2022-09-12T16:22:07+00:00</published>
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We never alter a struct alt_region after creation, and we open-code the
bounds of the kernel alternatives region in two functions. The
duplication is a bit unfortunate for clarity (and in future we're likely
to have more functions altering alternative regions), and to avoid
accidents it would be good to make the structure const.

This patch adds a shared struct `kernel_alternatives` alt_region for the
main kernel image, and marks the alt_regions as const to prevent
unintentional modification.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Joey Gouly &lt;joey.gouly@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220912162210.3626215-6-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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We never alter a struct alt_region after creation, and we open-code the
bounds of the kernel alternatives region in two functions. The
duplication is a bit unfortunate for clarity (and in future we're likely
to have more functions altering alternative regions), and to avoid
accidents it would be good to make the structure const.

This patch adds a shared struct `kernel_alternatives` alt_region for the
main kernel image, and marks the alt_regions as const to prevent
unintentional modification.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Joey Gouly &lt;joey.gouly@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220912162210.3626215-6-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<title>arm64: alternatives: hoist print out of __apply_alternatives()</title>
<updated>2022-09-16T16:15:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-12T16:22:06+00:00</published>
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Printing in the middle of __apply_alternatives() is potentially unsafe
and not all that helpful given these days we practically always patch
*something*.

Hoist the print out of __apply_alternatives(), and add separate prints
to __apply_alternatives() and apply_alternatives_all(), which will make
it easier to spot if either patching call goes wrong.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Joey Gouly &lt;joey.gouly@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220912162210.3626215-5-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Printing in the middle of __apply_alternatives() is potentially unsafe
and not all that helpful given these days we practically always patch
*something*.

Hoist the print out of __apply_alternatives(), and add separate prints
to __apply_alternatives() and apply_alternatives_all(), which will make
it easier to spot if either patching call goes wrong.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Joey Gouly &lt;joey.gouly@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220912162210.3626215-5-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<title>arm64: alternative: patch alternatives in the vDSO</title>
<updated>2022-09-09T11:27:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joey Gouly</name>
<email>joey.gouly@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-30T10:48:32+00:00</published>
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Make it possible to use alternatives in the vDSO, so that better
implementations can be used if possible.

Signed-off-by: Joey Gouly &lt;joey.gouly@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220830104833.34636-3-joey.gouly@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Make it possible to use alternatives in the vDSO, so that better
implementations can be used if possible.

Signed-off-by: Joey Gouly &lt;joey.gouly@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220830104833.34636-3-joey.gouly@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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