[PATCH] x86: SMP alternatives

Implement SMP alternatives, i.e.  switching at runtime between different
code versions for UP and SMP.  The code can patch both SMP->UP and UP->SMP.
The UP->SMP case is useful for CPU hotplug.

With CONFIG_CPU_HOTPLUG enabled the code switches to UP at boot time and
when the number of CPUs goes down to 1, and switches to SMP when the number
of CPUs goes up to 2.

Without CONFIG_CPU_HOTPLUG or on non-SMP-capable systems the code is
patched once at boot time (if needed) and the tables are released
afterwards.

The changes in detail:

  * The current alternatives bits are moved to a separate file,
    the SMP alternatives code is added there.

  * The patch adds some new elf sections to the kernel:
    .smp_altinstructions
	like .altinstructions, also contains a list
	of alt_instr structs.
    .smp_altinstr_replacement
	like .altinstr_replacement, but also has some space to
	save original instruction before replaving it.
    .smp_locks
	list of pointers to lock prefixes which can be nop'ed
	out on UP.
    The first two are used to replace more complex instruction
    sequences such as spinlocks and semaphores.  It would be possible
    to deal with the lock prefixes with that as well, but by handling
    them as special case the table sizes become much smaller.

 * The sections are page-aligned and padded up to page size, so they
   can be free if they are not needed.

 * Splitted the code to release init pages to a separate function and
   use it to release the elf sections if they are unused.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 129 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-i386/alternative.h b/include/asm-i386/alternative.h
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/include/asm-i386/alternative.h
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+#ifndef _I386_ALTERNATIVE_H
+#define _I386_ALTERNATIVE_H
+
+#ifdef __KERNEL__
+
+struct alt_instr {
+	u8 *instr; 		/* original instruction */
+	u8 *replacement;
+	u8  cpuid;		/* cpuid bit set for replacement */
+	u8  instrlen;		/* length of original instruction */
+	u8  replacementlen; 	/* length of new instruction, <= instrlen */
+	u8  pad;
+};
+
+extern void apply_alternatives(struct alt_instr *start, struct alt_instr *end);
+
+struct module;
+extern void alternatives_smp_module_add(struct module *mod, char *name,
+					void *locks, void *locks_end,
+					void *text, void *text_end);
+extern void alternatives_smp_module_del(struct module *mod);
+extern void alternatives_smp_switch(int smp);
+
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * Alternative instructions for different CPU types or capabilities.
+ *
+ * This allows to use optimized instructions even on generic binary
+ * kernels.
+ *
+ * length of oldinstr must be longer or equal the length of newinstr
+ * It can be padded with nops as needed.
+ *
+ * For non barrier like inlines please define new variants
+ * without volatile and memory clobber.
+ */
+#define alternative(oldinstr, newinstr, feature)			\
+	asm volatile ("661:\n\t" oldinstr "\n662:\n" 			\
+		      ".section .altinstructions,\"a\"\n"		\
+		      "  .align 4\n"					\
+		      "  .long 661b\n"            /* label */		\
+		      "  .long 663f\n"		  /* new instruction */	\
+		      "  .byte %c0\n"             /* feature bit */	\
+		      "  .byte 662b-661b\n"       /* sourcelen */	\
+		      "  .byte 664f-663f\n"       /* replacementlen */	\
+		      ".previous\n"					\
+		      ".section .altinstr_replacement,\"ax\"\n"		\
+		      "663:\n\t" newinstr "\n664:\n"   /* replacement */\
+		      ".previous" :: "i" (feature) : "memory")
+
+/*
+ * Alternative inline assembly with input.
+ *
+ * Pecularities:
+ * No memory clobber here.
+ * Argument numbers start with 1.
+ * Best is to use constraints that are fixed size (like (%1) ... "r")
+ * If you use variable sized constraints like "m" or "g" in the
+ * replacement maake sure to pad to the worst case length.
+ */
+#define alternative_input(oldinstr, newinstr, feature, input...)	\
+	asm volatile ("661:\n\t" oldinstr "\n662:\n"			\
+		      ".section .altinstructions,\"a\"\n"		\
+		      "  .align 4\n"					\
+		      "  .long 661b\n"            /* label */		\
+		      "  .long 663f\n"		  /* new instruction */ \
+		      "  .byte %c0\n"             /* feature bit */	\
+		      "  .byte 662b-661b\n"       /* sourcelen */	\
+		      "  .byte 664f-663f\n"       /* replacementlen */ 	\
+		      ".previous\n"					\
+		      ".section .altinstr_replacement,\"ax\"\n"		\
+		      "663:\n\t" newinstr "\n664:\n"   /* replacement */\
+		      ".previous" :: "i" (feature), ##input)
+
+/*
+ * Alternative inline assembly for SMP.
+ *
+ * alternative_smp() takes two versions (SMP first, UP second) and is
+ * for more complex stuff such as spinlocks.
+ *
+ * The LOCK_PREFIX macro defined here replaces the LOCK and
+ * LOCK_PREFIX macros used everywhere in the source tree.
+ *
+ * SMP alternatives use the same data structures as the other
+ * alternatives and the X86_FEATURE_UP flag to indicate the case of a
+ * UP system running a SMP kernel.  The existing apply_alternatives()
+ * works fine for patching a SMP kernel for UP.
+ *
+ * The SMP alternative tables can be kept after boot and contain both
+ * UP and SMP versions of the instructions to allow switching back to
+ * SMP at runtime, when hotplugging in a new CPU, which is especially
+ * useful in virtualized environments.
+ *
+ * The very common lock prefix is handled as special case in a
+ * separate table which is a pure address list without replacement ptr
+ * and size information.  That keeps the table sizes small.
+ */
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+#define alternative_smp(smpinstr, upinstr, args...)			\
+	asm volatile ("661:\n\t" smpinstr "\n662:\n" 			\
+		      ".section .smp_altinstructions,\"a\"\n"		\
+		      "  .align 4\n"					\
+		      "  .long 661b\n"            /* label */		\
+		      "  .long 663f\n"		  /* new instruction */	\
+		      "  .byte 0x68\n"            /* X86_FEATURE_UP */	\
+		      "  .byte 662b-661b\n"       /* sourcelen */	\
+		      "  .byte 664f-663f\n"       /* replacementlen */	\
+		      ".previous\n"					\
+		      ".section .smp_altinstr_replacement,\"awx\"\n"   	\
+		      "663:\n\t" upinstr "\n"     /* replacement */	\
+		      "664:\n\t.fill 662b-661b,1,0x42\n" /* space for original */ \
+		      ".previous" : args)
+
+#define LOCK_PREFIX \
+		".section .smp_locks,\"a\"\n"	\
+		"  .align 4\n"			\
+		"  .long 661f\n" /* address */	\
+		".previous\n"			\
+	       	"661:\n\tlock; "
+
+#else /* ! CONFIG_SMP */
+#define alternative_smp(smpinstr, upinstr, args...) \
+	asm volatile (upinstr : args)
+#define LOCK_PREFIX ""
+#endif
+
+#endif /* _I386_ALTERNATIVE_H */