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| author | Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> | 2014-11-14 16:54:08 +0100 |
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| committer | Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> | 2014-11-25 14:46:36 +0100 |
| commit | e039ee4ee3fcf174736f2cb0a2eed6cb908348a6 (patch) | |
| tree | 65cb1ee1f7ad18726189954a4fd4d0f64420838a /arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | |
| parent | arm64: add cpu_capabilities bitmap (diff) | |
| download | linux-e039ee4ee3fcf174736f2cb0a2eed6cb908348a6.tar.xz linux-e039ee4ee3fcf174736f2cb0a2eed6cb908348a6.zip | |
arm64: add alternative runtime patching
With a blatant copy of some x86 bits we introduce the alternative
runtime patching "framework" to arm64.
This is quite basic for now and we only provide the functions we need
at this time.
This is connected to the newly introduced feature bits.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index 4596f46d0244..3236727be2b9 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -116,6 +116,17 @@ SECTIONS . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); __init_end = .; + . = ALIGN(4); + .altinstructions : { + __alt_instructions = .; + *(.altinstructions) + __alt_instructions_end = .; + } + .altinstr_replacement : { + *(.altinstr_replacement) + } + + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); _data = .; _sdata = .; RW_DATA_SECTION(64, PAGE_SIZE, THREAD_SIZE) |