xen/arm: alternative: add auto-nop infrastructure
In some cases, one side of an alternative sequence is simply a number of
NOPs used to balance the other side. Keeping track of this manually is
tedious, and the presence of large chains of NOPs makes the code more
painful to read than necessary.
To ameliorate matters, this patch adds a new alternative_else_nop_endif,
which automatically balances an alternative sequence with a trivial NOP
sled.
In many cases, we would like a NOP-sled in the default case, and
instructions patched in in the presence of a feature. To enable the NOPs
to be generated automatically for this case, this patch also adds a new
alternative_if, and updates alternative_else and alternative_endif to
work with either alternative_if or alternative_endif.
The alternative infrastructure was originally ported from Linux. So this
is pretty much a straight backport from commit
792d47379f4d "arm64:
alternative: add auto-nop infrastructure". The only difference is the
nops macro added as not yet existing in Xen.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
[will: use new nops macro to generate nop sequences]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
[julien: Add nops and port to Xen]
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Volodymyr Babchuk <volodymyr_babchuk@epam.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Release-acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>