Current minimum required version of binutils is 2.23, which supports VMCALL and VMMCALL instruction mnemonics. Replace the byte-wise specification of VMCALL and VMMCALL with these proper mnemonics. Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@xxxxxxxxx> CC: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h index 9b4df6eaa11a..5e5e6c027424 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ static inline bool kvm_check_and_clear_guest_paused(void) #endif /* CONFIG_KVM_GUEST */ #define KVM_HYPERCALL \ - ALTERNATIVE(".byte 0x0f,0x01,0xc1", ".byte 0x0f,0x01,0xd9", X86_FEATURE_VMMCALL) + ALTERNATIVE("vmcall", "vmmcall", X86_FEATURE_VMMCALL) /* For KVM hypercalls, a three-byte sequence of either the vmcall or the vmmcall * instruction. The hypervisor may replace it with something else but only the -- 2.25.4