[PATCH v4 07/18] arm64: assembler: remove user_alt

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Mon May 24 02:58:08 PDT 2021


On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 09:29:50AM +0100, Fuad Tabba wrote:
> user_alt isn't being used anymore. It's also simpler and clearer
> to directly use alternative_insn and _cond_extable in-line when
> needed.
> 
> Reported-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20210520125735.GF17233@C02TD0UTHF1T.local/
> Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba at google.com>

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>

Mark.

> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative-macros.h | 5 -----
>  1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative-macros.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative-macros.h
> index 8a078fc662ac..477703578caa 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative-macros.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative-macros.h
> @@ -197,11 +197,6 @@ alternative_endif
>  #define _ALTERNATIVE_CFG(insn1, insn2, cap, cfg, ...)	\
>  	alternative_insn insn1, insn2, cap, IS_ENABLED(cfg)
>  
> -.macro user_alt, label, oldinstr, newinstr, cond
> -9999:	alternative_insn "\oldinstr", "\newinstr", \cond
> -	_asm_extable 9999b, \label
> -.endm
> -
>  #endif  /*  __ASSEMBLY__  */
>  
>  /*
> -- 
> 2.31.1.818.g46aad6cb9e-goog
> 



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