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Add a struct alt_instr.flags field which will contain different flags controlling alternatives patching behavior. The initial idea was to be able to specify it as a separate macro parameter but that would mean touching all possible invocations of the alternatives macros and thus a lot of churn. What is more, as PeterZ suggested, being able to say ALT_NOT(feature) is very readable and explains exactly what is meant. So make the feature field a u32 where the patching flags are the upper u16 part of the dword quantity while the lower u16 word is the feature. The highest feature number currently is 0x26a (i.e., word 19) so there is plenty of space. If that becomes insufficient, the field can be extended to u64 which will then make struct alt_instr of the nice size of 16 bytes (14 bytes currently). There should be no functional changes resulting from this. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Y6RCoJEtxxZWwotd@zn.tnic |
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