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[RFC,06/16] arm64: alternative: Mark .altinstr_replacement as containing executable instructions

Message ID 20190516103655.5509-7-raphael.gault@arm.com (mailing list archive)
State RFC
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Series objtool: Add support for Arm64 | expand

Commit Message

Raphael Gault May 16, 2019, 10:36 a.m. UTC 
Until now, the section .altinstr_replacement wasn't marked as containing
executable instructions on arm64. This patch changes that so that it is
coherent with what is done on x86.

Signed-off-by: Raphael Gault <raphael.gault@arm.com>
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 arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative.h
index b9f8d787eea9..e9e6b81e3eb4 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative.h
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@  static inline void apply_alternatives_module(void *start, size_t length) { }
 	ALTINSTR_ENTRY(feature,cb)					\
 	".popsection\n"							\
 	" .if " __stringify(cb) " == 0\n"				\
-	".pushsection .altinstr_replacement, \"a\"\n"			\
+	".pushsection .altinstr_replacement, \"ax\"\n"			\
 	"663:\n\t"							\
 	newinstr "\n"							\
 	"664:\n\t"							\