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authorMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>2023-01-23 13:46:01 +0000
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2023-01-24 11:49:43 +0000
commite4ecbe83fd1a5428d5458de04a3404f1b5444429 (patch)
tree0e7fafdcb46e5fe7277be82d46bfd55809662652 /arch/arm64/include
parent2bbbb4015aa1af62f8002de86de019786ecf63a7 (diff)
arm64: patching: Add aarch64_insn_write_literal_u64()
In subsequent patches we'll need to atomically write to a naturally-aligned 64-bit literal embedded within the kernel text. Add a helper for this. For consistency with other text patching code we use copy_to_kernel_nofault(), which is atomic for naturally-aligned accesses up to 64-bits. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230123134603.1064407-7-mark.rutland@arm.com Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/include')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/include/asm/patching.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/patching.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/patching.h
index 6bf5adc56295..68908b82b168 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/patching.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/patching.h
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
int aarch64_insn_read(void *addr, u32 *insnp);
int aarch64_insn_write(void *addr, u32 insn);
+int aarch64_insn_write_literal_u64(void *addr, u64 val);
+
int aarch64_insn_patch_text_nosync(void *addr, u32 insn);
int aarch64_insn_patch_text(void *addrs[], u32 insns[], int cnt);