Merge branch 'x86/mem' into perf/core

Merge reason: memcpy_64.S changes an assumption perf bench has, so merge this
              here so we can fix it.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index 651454b0c81..1eeeafcb441 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -210,6 +210,15 @@ void __init_or_module apply_alternatives(struct alt_instr *start,
 	u8 insnbuf[MAX_PATCH_LEN];
 
 	DPRINTK("%s: alt table %p -> %p\n", __func__, start, end);
+	/*
+	 * The scan order should be from start to end. A later scanned
+	 * alternative code can overwrite a previous scanned alternative code.
+	 * Some kernel functions (e.g. memcpy, memset, etc) use this order to
+	 * patch code.
+	 *
+	 * So be careful if you want to change the scan order to any other
+	 * order.
+	 */
 	for (a = start; a < end; a++) {
 		u8 *instr = a->instr;
 		BUG_ON(a->replacementlen > a->instrlen);