[RFC PATCH v2 01/26] arm64: lib: Annotate {clear, copy}_page() as position-independent

Quentin Perret qperret at google.com
Fri Jan 8 07:14:59 EST 2021


From: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>

clear_page() and copy_page() are suitable for use outside of the kernel
address space, so annotate them as position-independent code.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret at google.com>
---
 arch/arm64/lib/clear_page.S | 4 ++--
 arch/arm64/lib/copy_page.S  | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/lib/clear_page.S b/arch/arm64/lib/clear_page.S
index 073acbf02a7c..b84b179edba3 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/lib/clear_page.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/lib/clear_page.S
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
  * Parameters:
  *	x0 - dest
  */
-SYM_FUNC_START(clear_page)
+SYM_FUNC_START_PI(clear_page)
 	mrs	x1, dczid_el0
 	and	w1, w1, #0xf
 	mov	x2, #4
@@ -25,5 +25,5 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(clear_page)
 	tst	x0, #(PAGE_SIZE - 1)
 	b.ne	1b
 	ret
-SYM_FUNC_END(clear_page)
+SYM_FUNC_END_PI(clear_page)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_page)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/lib/copy_page.S b/arch/arm64/lib/copy_page.S
index e7a793961408..29144f4cd449 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/lib/copy_page.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/lib/copy_page.S
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
  *	x0 - dest
  *	x1 - src
  */
-SYM_FUNC_START(copy_page)
+SYM_FUNC_START_PI(copy_page)
 alternative_if ARM64_HAS_NO_HW_PREFETCH
 	// Prefetch three cache lines ahead.
 	prfm	pldl1strm, [x1, #128]
@@ -75,5 +75,5 @@ alternative_else_nop_endif
 	stnp	x16, x17, [x0, #112 - 256]
 
 	ret
-SYM_FUNC_END(copy_page)
+SYM_FUNC_END_PI(copy_page)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(copy_page)
-- 
2.30.0.284.gd98b1dd5eaa7-goog




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