[RFC v5 46/57] arm64: alternative: Mark .altinstr_replacement as containing executable instructions
From: Julien Thierry <hidden>
Date: 2020-01-09 16:09:01
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lkml
Subsystem:
arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), the rest · Maintainers:
Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Linus Torvalds
From: Raphael Gault <redacted> Until now, the section .altinstr_replacement wasn't marked as containing executable instructions on arm64. This patch changes that so that it is coherent with what is done on x86. Signed-off-by: Raphael Gault <redacted> Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry <redacted> --- arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative.h
index b9f8d787eea9..e9e6b81e3eb4 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative.h@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ static inline void apply_alternatives_module(void *start, size_t length) { } ALTINSTR_ENTRY(feature,cb) \ ".popsection\n" \ " .if " __stringify(cb) " == 0\n" \ - ".pushsection .altinstr_replacement, \"a\"\n" \ + ".pushsection .altinstr_replacement, \"ax\"\n" \ "663:\n\t" \ newinstr "\n" \ "664:\n\t" \ --
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