x86-64: Modify memcpy()/memset() alternatives mechanism
In order to avoid unnecessary chains of branches, rather than implementing memcpy()/memset()'s access to their alternative implementations via a jump, patch the (larger) original function directly. The memcpy() part of this is slightly subtle: while alternative instruction patching does itself use memcpy(), with the replacement block being less than 64-bytes in size the main loop of the original function doesn't get used for copying memcpy_c() over memcpy(), and hence we can safely write over its beginning. Also note that the CFI annotations are fine for both variants of each of the functions. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <4B2BB8D30200007800026AF2@vpn.id2.novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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