ARM: add mechanism for late code patching

The original phys_to_virt/virt_to_phys patching implementation relied on early
patching prior to MMU initialization.  On PAE systems running out of >4G
address space, this would have entailed an additional round of patching after
switching over to the high address space.

The approach implemented here conceptually extends the original PHYS_OFFSET
patching implementation with the introduction of "early" patch stubs.  Early
patch code is required to be functional out of the box, even before the patch
is applied.  This is implemented by inserting functional (but inefficient)
load code into the .runtime.patch.code init section.  Having functional code
out of the box then allows us to defer the init time patch application until
later in the init sequence.

In addition to fitting better with our need for physical address-space
switch-over, this implementation should be somewhat more extensible by virtue
of its more readable (and hackable) C implementation.  This should prove
useful for other similar init time specialization needs, especially in light
of our multi-platform kernel initiative.

This code has been boot tested in both ARM and Thumb-2 modes on an ARMv7
(Cortex-A8) device.

Note: the obtuse use of stringified symbols in patch_stub() and
early_patch_stub() is intentional.  Theoretically this should have been
accomplished with formal operands passed into the asm block, but this requires
the use of the 'c' modifier for instantiating the long (e.g. .long %c0).
However, the 'c' modifier has been found to ICE certain versions of GCC, and
therefore we resort to stringified symbols here.

Signed-off-by: Cyril Chemparathy <cyril@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
index 3f6cbb2e3ed..125d611917e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@
 #include <asm/unwind.h>
 #include <asm/memblock.h>
 #include <asm/virt.h>
+#include <asm/runtime-patch.h>
 
 #include "atags.h"
 #include "tcm.h"
@@ -794,6 +795,8 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 
 	if (mdesc->init_early)
 		mdesc->init_early();
+
+	runtime_patch_kernel();
 }