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    powerpc/asm: Add a patch_site macro & helpers for patching instructions · 06d0bbc6
    Michael Ellerman authored
    Add a macro and some helper C functions for patching single asm
    instructions.
    
    The gas macro means we can do something like:
    
      1:	nop
      	patch_site 1b, patch__foo
    
    Which is less visually distracting than defining a GLOBAL symbol at 1,
    and also doesn't pollute the symbol table which can confuse eg. perf.
    
    These are obviously similar to our existing feature sections, but are
    not automatically patched based on CPU/MMU features, rather they are
    designed to be manually patched by C code at some arbitrary point.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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