From fac23fe4be23259a8eaa9bad822f5b14dd07d15c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Ellerman Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:32:54 +1000 Subject: powerpc: Introduce infrastructure for feature sections with alternatives The current feature section logic only supports nop'ing out code, this means if you want to choose at runtime between instruction sequences, one or both cases will have to execute the nop'ed out contents of the other section, eg: BEGIN_FTR_SECTION or 1,1,1 END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(FOO) BEGIN_FTR_SECTION or 2,2,2 END_FTR_SECTION_IFCLR(FOO) and the resulting code will be either, or 1,1,1 nop or, nop or 2,2,2 For small code segments this is fine, but for larger code blocks and in performance criticial code segments, it would be nice to avoid the nops. This commit starts to implement logic to allow the following: BEGIN_FTR_SECTION or 1,1,1 FTR_SECTION_ELSE or 2,2,2 ALT_FTR_SECTION_END_IFSET(FOO) and the resulting code will be: or 1,1,1 or, or 2,2,2 We achieve this by extending the existing FTR macros. The current feature section semantic just becomes a special case, ie. if the else case is empty we nop out the default case. The key limitation is that the size of the else case must be less than or equal to the size of the default case. If the else case is smaller the remainder of the section is nop'ed. We let the linker put the else case code in with the rest of the text, so that relative branches from the else case are more likley to link, this has the disadvantage that we can't free the unused else cases. This commit introduces the required macro and linker script changes, but does not enable the patching of the alternative sections. We also need to update two hand-made section entries in reg.h and timex.h Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras --- arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c') diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c b/arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c index f6fd5d2ff10..973d547ef01 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c @@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ struct fixup_entry { unsigned long value; long start_off; long end_off; + long alt_start_off; + long alt_end_off; }; static void patch_feature_section(unsigned long value, struct fixup_entry *fcur) -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258