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| author | Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2018-04-27 07:36:39 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-04-29 11:31:58 +0200 |
| commit | d69aa5e682c3ada69902936e6b7d8cd18827297a (patch) | |
| tree | 54fe2cae0137552332310623b42cccb811bddddd /Documentation | |
| parent | c8b1584e5e37fdbf654113a746076d37e9a93206 (diff) | |
s390: introduce CPU alternatives
[ Upstream commit 686140a1a9c41d85a4212a1c26d671139b76404b ]
Implement CPU alternatives, which allows to optionally patch newer
instructions at runtime, based on CPU facilities availability.
A new kernel boot parameter "noaltinstr" disables patching.
Current implementation is derived from x86 alternatives. Although
ideal instructions padding (when altinstr is longer then oldinstr)
is added at compile time, and no oldinstr nops optimization has to be
done at runtime. Also couple of compile time sanity checks are done:
1. oldinstr and altinstr must be <= 254 bytes long,
2. oldinstr and altinstr must not have an odd length.
alternative(oldinstr, altinstr, facility);
alternative_2(oldinstr, altinstr1, facility1, altinstr2, facility2);
Both compile time and runtime padding consists of either 6/4/2 bytes nop
or a jump (brcl) + 2 bytes nop filler if padding is longer then 6 bytes.
.altinstructions and .altinstr_replacement sections are part of
__init_begin : __init_end region and are freed after initialization.
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 466c039c622b..5f9e51436a99 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2640,6 +2640,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. noalign [KNL,ARM] + noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching + (CPU alternatives feature). + noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any IOAPICs that may be present in the system. |