x86, alternative: Add altinstruction_entry macro

Add altinstruction_entry macro to generate .altinstructions section
entries from assembly code.  This should be less failure-prone than
open-coding.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-5-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Fenghua Yu 2011-05-17 15:29:13 -07:00 committed by H. Peter Anvin
parent 5097313363
commit 9072d11da1

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.endm
#endif
.macro altinstruction_entry orig alt feature orig_len alt_len
.align 8
.quad \orig
.quad \alt
.word \feature
.byte \orig_len
.byte \alt_len
.endm
#endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */