[RFC PATCH 1/1] arm64: implement live patching

Suraj Jitindar Singh sjitindarsingh at gmail.com
Tue Jun 8 17:12:15 PDT 2021


On Mon, 2021-06-07 at 18:01 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 04:59:30PM -0700, Suraj Jitindar Singh wrote:
> 
> > + * CONFIG_ARM64_BTI_KERNEL:
> > + *	- Inserts a hint #0x22 on function entry if the function is
> > called
> > + *	  indirectly (to satisfy BTI requirements), which is inserted
> > before
> > + *	  the two nops from above.
> 
> Please write out the symbolic name of the HINT (BTI C here) rather
> than
> the number, it helps with readability especially in a case like this
> where there are multiple relevant hints.

Thanks for taking a look, I will keep that in mind for when I resend.




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