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authorJan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>2009-12-18 16:12:56 +0000
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-12-30 11:57:31 +0100
commit1b1d9258181bae199dc940f4bd0298126b9a73d9 (patch)
treeb17ca149d943051fc76e79b75fc4b89c61b524a2 /arch/x86/lib
parent499a5f1efa0b0ac56ec5d060412aed84ae68e63e (diff)
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: Jan 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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/lib')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S6
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S b/arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S
index cf889d4e076..71100c98e33 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S
@@ -90,12 +90,6 @@ ENTRY(_copy_from_user)
CFI_ENDPROC
ENDPROC(_copy_from_user)
-ENTRY(copy_user_generic)
- CFI_STARTPROC
- ALTERNATIVE_JUMP X86_FEATURE_REP_GOOD,copy_user_generic_unrolled,copy_user_generic_string
- CFI_ENDPROC
-ENDPROC(copy_user_generic)
-
.section .fixup,"ax"
/* must zero dest */
ENTRY(bad_from_user)