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From: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
To: richard.henderson@linaro.org, mattst88@gmail.com,
	glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de, macro@orcam.me.uk,
	macro@redhat.com, mcree@orcon.net.nz, ink@unseen.parts,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/1] Add support for HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:58:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260219170013.15884-1-linmag7@gmail.com> (raw)

This patch adds jump label (static key) support for Alpha.
Testing and verification were performed on an UP2000+ system.

Verification steps:

  - Confirmed __jump_table section is present at runtime via
    /proc/kallsyms and contains a non-zero number of entries.

  - Instrumented arch_jump_label_transform() to log patch
    operations and verified instruction sites toggle between:

        NOP (bis $31,$31,$31, 0x47ff041f)
        BR  (br $31,target)

  - Added temporary instrumentation in
    arch_jump_label_transform() to log old/new instruction
    values at each patch site, and used a Python script to
    validate correct NOP/BR transitions and branch encoding,
    confirming functional runtime patching.

Instruction stream synchronization uses imb()/smp_imb() via
flush_icache_range(), and runtime behavior confirms correct
I-cache coherency.

The system remained stable throughout all testing.

Magnus Lindholm (1):
  alpha: Add support for HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL

 arch/alpha/Kconfig                  |  1 +
 arch/alpha/include/asm/jump_label.h | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/alpha/kernel/Makefile          |  1 +
 arch/alpha/kernel/jump_label.c      | 81 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 149 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 arch/alpha/include/asm/jump_label.h
 create mode 100644 arch/alpha/kernel/jump_label.c

-- 
2.52.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-02-19 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-02-19 16:58 Magnus Lindholm [this message]
2026-02-19 16:58 ` [PATCH 1/1] alpha: Add support for HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL Magnus Lindholm

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