Laszlo Ersek 8596c14090 MdePkg/BaseLib: add PatchInstructionX86()
Some edk2 modules generate X86 machine code at module execution time by:

- compiling "template" code with NASM at module build time,

- linking the object code into the module,

- and patching the immediate (constant) operands of some instructions when
  the module is executed.

Add a helper function to BaseLib so that the C code performing the
patching is easier to read and maintain.

The implementation in this patch is taken mainly from Mike Kinney's
mailing list messages at
<http://mid.mail-archive.com/E92EE9817A31E24EB0585FDF735412F5B895C360@ORSMSX113.amr.corp.intel.com>,
<http://mid.mail-archive.com/E92EE9817A31E24EB0585FDF735412F5B898BF66@ORSMSX112.amr.corp.intel.com>.

Cc: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
Cc: Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
Ref: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=866
Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
2018-04-04 16:43:58 +02:00
2014-10-14 16:08:15 +00:00

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