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Will Deacon authored
This reverts most of commit fef7f2b2. It turns out that there are a couple of problems with the way we're fixing up branch instructions used as part of alternative instruction sequences: (1) If the branch target is also in the alternative sequence, we'll generate a branch into the .altinstructions section which actually gets freed. (2) The calls to aarch64_insn_{read,write} bring an awful lot more code into the patching path (e.g. taking locks, poking the fixmap, invalidating the TLB) which isn't actually needed for the early patching run under stop_machine, but makes the use of alternative sequences extremely fragile (as we can't patch code that could be used by the patching code). Given that no code actually requires alternative patching of immediate branches, let's remove this support for now and revisit it when we've got a user. We leave the updated size check, since we really do require the sequences to be the same length. Acked-by:
Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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