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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative.h | 25 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative.h index 1c2ec6860252..ec1295139dbc 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative.h +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative.h @@ -25,7 +25,20 @@ void free_alternatives_memory(void); " .byte 662b-661b\n" /* source len */ \ " .byte 664f-663f\n" /* replacement len */ -/* alternative assembly primitive: */ +/* + * alternative assembly primitive: + * + * If any of these .org directive fail, it means that insn1 and insn2 + * don't have the same length. This used to be written as + * + * .if ((664b-663b) != (662b-661b)) + * .error "Alternatives instruction length mismatch" + * .endif + * + * but most assemblers die if insn1 or insn2 have a .inst. This should + * be fixed in a binutils release posterior to 2.25.51.0.2 (anything + * containing commit 4e4d08cf7399b606 or c1baaddf8861). + */ #define ALTERNATIVE(oldinstr, newinstr, feature) \ "661:\n\t" \ oldinstr "\n" \ @@ -38,9 +51,8 @@ void free_alternatives_memory(void); newinstr "\n" \ "664:\n\t" \ ".popsection\n\t" \ - ".if ((664b-663b) != (662b-661b))\n\t" \ - " .error \"Alternatives instruction length mismatch\"\n\t"\ - ".endif\n" + ".org . - (664b-663b) + (662b-661b)\n\t" \ + ".org . - (662b-661b) + (664b-663b)\n" #else @@ -60,9 +72,8 @@ void free_alternatives_memory(void); .pushsection .altinstr_replacement, "ax" 663: \insn2 664: .popsection - .if ((664b-663b) != (662b-661b)) - .error "Alternatives instruction length mismatch" - .endif + .org . - (664b-663b) + (662b-661b) + .org . - (662b-661b) + (664b-663b) .endm #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */ |