x86/nospec, objtool: Introduce ANNOTATE_IGNORE_ALTERNATIVE

To facillitate other usage of ignoring alternatives; rename
ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_IGNORE to ANNOTATE_IGNORE_ALTERNATIVE.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-18 14:33:07 +01:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent b69656fa7e
commit ff05ab2305
4 changed files with 34 additions and 23 deletions

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@@ -45,6 +45,16 @@
#define LOCK_PREFIX ""
#endif
/*
* objtool annotation to ignore the alternatives and only consider the original
* instruction(s).
*/
#define ANNOTATE_IGNORE_ALTERNATIVE \
"999:\n\t" \
".pushsection .discard.ignore_alts\n\t" \
".long 999b - .\n\t" \
".popsection\n\t"
struct alt_instr {
s32 instr_offset; /* original instruction */
s32 repl_offset; /* offset to replacement instruction */