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Commit 01be50a3 authored by Jan Beulich's avatar Jan Beulich Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/alternatives: Check replacementlen <= instrlen at build time



Having run into the run-(boot-)time check a couple of times lately,
I finally took time to find a build-time check so that one doesn't
need to analyze the register/stack dump and resolve this (through
manual lookup in vmlinux) to the offending construct.

The assembler will emit a message like "Error: value of <num> too
large for field of 1 bytes at <offset>", which while not pointing
out the source location still makes analysis quite a bit easier.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0FF8AA0200007800022703@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 8ec6993d
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