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x86/alternatives: Remove the mixed-patching restriction on smp_text_poke_single()
authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 05:40:48 +0000 (07:40 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 09:01:34 +0000 (11:01 +0200)
At this point smp_text_poke_single(addr, opcode, len, emulate) is equivalent to:

smp_text_poke_batch_add(addr, opcode, len, emulate);
smp_text_poke_batch_finish();

So remove the restriction on mixing single-instruction patching
with multi-instruction patching.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250411054105.2341982-37-mingo@kernel.org
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c

index eb0da270043b1e890b3b1a5a28311a874fc85294..f0bb2158f27b75f97341fbc72f05762f62a5db7c 100644 (file)
@@ -2892,9 +2892,6 @@ void __ref smp_text_poke_batch_add(void *addr, const void *opcode, size_t len, c
  */
 void __ref smp_text_poke_single(void *addr, const void *opcode, size_t len, const void *emulate)
 {
-       /* Batch-patching should not be mixed with single-patching: */
-       WARN_ON_ONCE(text_poke_array.nr_entries != 0);
-
        __smp_text_poke_batch_add(addr, opcode, len, emulate);
        smp_text_poke_batch_finish();
 }