On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 01:59:31PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote: > The current alternative instruction framework is not kind to branches, > potentially leading to all kind of hacks in the code that uses > alternatives. This series expands it to deal with immediate branches > (for a start), and applies it to the VGIC world switch. > > Patch #1 adds the required infrastructure to extract the immediate > from an instruction. > > Patch #2 allows the use of an immediate b or bl instruction as an > alternative, computing the target branch as the instruction is being > patched in. > > Patch #3 defines a feature framework that works exactly like the CPU > errata infrastructure (and shares a lot with it). > > Patch #4 adds detection of the system register GICv3 CPU interface. > > Patch #5 enables dynamic patching of the KVM code. > > This has been tested with GICv3 on a FastModel. Modulo my one minor comment: Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> for the series. Will _______________________________________________ kvmarm mailing list kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/kvmarm
