linux/tools
Peter Zijlstra 23c1ad538f x86/alternatives: Optimize optimize_nops()
Currently, optimize_nops() scans to see if the alternative starts with
NOPs. However, the emit pattern is:

  141:	\oldinstr
  142:	.skip (len-(142b-141b)), 0x90

That is, when 'oldinstr' is short, the tail is padded with NOPs. This case
never gets optimized.

Rewrite optimize_nops() to replace any trailing string of NOPs inside
the alternative to larger NOPs. Also run it irrespective of patching,
replacing NOPs in both the original and replaced code.

A direct consequence is that 'padlen' becomes superfluous, so remove it.

 [ bp:
   - Adjust commit message
   - remove a stale comment about needing to pad
   - add a comment in optimize_nops()
   - exit early if the NOP verif. loop catches a mismatch - function
     should not not add NOPs in that case
   - fix the "optimized NOPs" offsets output ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210326151259.442992235@infradead.org
2021-04-02 12:41:17 +02:00
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accounting
arch Merge branch 'x86/cpu' into WIP.x86/core, to merge the NOP changes & resolve a semantic conflict 2021-04-02 12:36:30 +02:00
bootconfig tools/bootconfig: Add tracing_on support to helper scripts 2021-01-14 10:32:20 -05:00
bpf Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 2021-02-26 13:16:31 -08:00
build perf build: Move feature cleanup under tools/build 2021-03-06 16:54:24 -03:00
cgroup
debugging docs: Update documentation to reflect what TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC means 2020-12-08 10:53:58 -07:00
edid
firewire
firmware
gpio tools: gpio: remove uAPI v1 code no longer used by selftests 2021-02-15 11:43:28 +01:00
hv
iio
include Linux 5.12-rc5 2021-04-02 12:33:16 +02:00
io_uring
kvm/kvm_stat tools/kvm_stat: Exempt time-based counters 2020-12-11 19:18:51 -05:00
laptop
leds
lib libbpf: Fix BTF dump of pointer-to-array-of-struct 2021-03-19 14:14:44 -07:00
memory-model tools/memory-model: Fix typo in klitmus7 compatibility table 2021-01-04 14:40:50 -08:00
objtool x86/alternatives: Optimize optimize_nops() 2021-04-02 12:41:17 +02:00
pci
pcmcia
perf Linux 5.12-rc5 2021-04-02 12:33:16 +02:00
power platform-drivers-x86 for v5.12-1 2021-02-22 08:50:01 -08:00
scripts New features: 2021-02-22 13:59:43 -08:00
spi
testing Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-03-25 11:43:43 -07:00
thermal/tmon
time
tracing tracing/tools: fix a couple of spelling mistakes 2021-02-25 12:54:16 -05:00
usb
virtio tools/virtio: add barrier for aarch64 2020-12-18 16:14:30 -05:00
vm
wmi
Makefile tracing/tools: Add the latency-collector to tools directory 2021-02-12 11:52:59 -05:00