If multiple CPUs are patching code we need the spinlock
to protect against parallel fixmap maps/unmap calls.
Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
add patch_text_multiple() which allows to patch multiple
text words in memory. This can be used to copy functions.
Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
It's not used by patch_map()/patch_unmap(), so lets remove
it.
Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Instead of re-mapping the whole kernel text with RWX rights
add a patch_text() which can be used to replace instructions
in the kernel .text section. Based on the ARM implementation.
Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Sven Schnelle