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x86: Add text_poke_smp for SMP cross modifying code
authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:34:38 +0000 (08:34 -0500)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:49:26 +0000 (17:49 +0100)
commit3d55cc8a058ee96291d6d45b1e35121b9920eca3
tree716a79a900c013082f02de127e1fae784997ce49
parentf007ea2685692bafb386820144cf73a14016fc7c
x86: Add text_poke_smp for SMP cross modifying code

Add generic text_poke_smp for SMP which uses stop_machine()
to synchronize modifying code.
This stop_machine() method is officially described at "7.1.3
Handling Self- and Cross-Modifying Code" on the intel's
software developer's manual 3A.

Since stop_machine() can't protect code against NMI/MCE, this
function can not modify those handlers. And also, this function
is basically for modifying multibyte-single-instruction. For
modifying multibyte-multi-instructions, we need another special
trap & detour code.

This code originaly comes from immediate values with
stop_machine() version. Thanks Jason and Mathieu!

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@ksplice.com>
Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100225133438.6725.80273.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c