x86/alternative: Shrink text_poke_loc
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Wed, 9 Oct 2019 10:26:53 +0000 (12:26 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 27 Nov 2019 06:44:24 +0000 (07:44 +0100)
commit4531ef6a8aaf132aa32e2e26670c652942540633
treed9e7587dd1027cd0472bb61d78c409f5bc279b76
parent97e6c977ccf128c3f34d6084ad53fc0021f90e03
x86/alternative: Shrink text_poke_loc

Employ the fact that all text must be within a s32 displacement of one
another to shrink the text_poke_loc::addr field. Make it relative to
_stext.

This then shrinks struct text_poke_loc to 16 bytes, and consequently
increases TP_VEC_MAX from 170 to 256.

Tested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191111132458.047052889@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c