From 3d55cc8a058ee96291d6d45b1e35121b9920eca3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masami Hiramatsu Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:34:38 -0500 Subject: 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 Cc: systemtap Cc: DLE Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Cc: Jim Keniston Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Anders Kaseorg Cc: Tim Abbott Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Jason Baron Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli LKML-Reference: <20100225133438.6725.80273.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h') diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h index ac80b7d70014..643d6ab3588b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h @@ -160,10 +160,12 @@ static inline void apply_paravirt(struct paravirt_patch_site *start, * invalid instruction possible) or if the instructions are changed from a * consistent state to another consistent state atomically. * More care must be taken when modifying code in the SMP case because of - * Intel's errata. + * Intel's errata. text_poke_smp() takes care that errata, but still + * doesn't support NMI/MCE handler code modifying. * On the local CPU you need to be protected again NMI or MCE handlers seeing an * inconsistent instruction while you patch. */ extern void *text_poke(void *addr, const void *opcode, size_t len); +extern void *text_poke_smp(void *addr, const void *opcode, size_t len); #endif /* _ASM_X86_ALTERNATIVE_H */ -- cgit v1.2.3