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x86/jump-label: Remove support for custom text poker
authorNadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Fri, 26 Apr 2019 00:11:32 +0000 (17:11 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 30 Apr 2019 10:37:55 +0000 (12:37 +0200)
commitbb0a008d6a2c543efc11313b448d2f26f91dc4f8
tree09b4a78f0db76fcd284a5a8201f0f70b69de0c0c
parentf2c65fb3221adc6b73b0549fc7ba892022db9797
x86/jump-label: Remove support for custom text poker

There are only two types of text poking: early and breakpoint based. The use
of a function pointer to perform text poking complicates the code and is
probably inefficient due to the use of indirect branches.

Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: <deneen.t.dock@intel.com>
Cc: <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>
Cc: <kristen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <linux_dti@icloud.com>
Cc: <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190426001143.4983-13-namit@vmware.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c