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Commit 1b1d9258 authored by Jan Beulich's avatar Jan Beulich Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86-64: Modify copy_user_generic() alternatives mechanism



In order to avoid unnecessary chains of branches, rather than
implementing copy_user_generic() as a function consisting of
just a single (possibly patched) branch, instead properly deal
with patching call instructions in the alternative instructions
framework, and move the patching into the callers.

As a follow-on, one could also introduce something like
__EXPORT_SYMBOL_ALT() to avoid patching call sites in modules.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B2BB8180200007800026AE7@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 499a5f1e
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