From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>,
Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
Balamuruhan S <bala24@linux.ibm.com>,
naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 12/30] powerpc: Use a function for reading instructions
Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 07:03:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <08df818c-b602-1a20-7eb4-a3e1f78188c3@csgroup.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877dx84liy.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au>
Le 19/05/2020 à 06:05, Michael Ellerman a écrit :
> Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 4:39 AM Christophe Leroy
>> <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Le 06/05/2020 à 05:40, Jordan Niethe a écrit :
>>>> Prefixed instructions will mean there are instructions of different
>>>> length. As a result dereferencing a pointer to an instruction will not
>>>> necessarily give the desired result. Introduce a function for reading
>>>> instructions from memory into the instruction data type.
>>>
>>>
>>> Shouldn't this function be used in mmu_patch_addis() in mm/nohash/8xx.c ?
>>>
>>> Christophe
>
>> Yes, that would be a good idea.
>
>> mpe here is a fix, along with one I'll
>> post for [PATCH v8 11/30] powerpc: Use a datatype for instructions.
>
> I didn't fold this in because I'd prefer one of you send me a patch on
> top of the series that converts that code to use the new type.
>
> That way it can be tested separately from this big series.
>
All this code is going away with the series implementing the use of
hugepages for kernel mappings on 8xx
(https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/list/?series=176094)
that I hope will go in 5.8, so there is no point in sending a patch to
change that I guess.
Is there anything special I need to do to secure the merging of that
series in 5.8 ?
Christophe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-19 5:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-06 3:40 [PATCH v8 00/30] Initial Prefixed Instruction support Jordan Niethe
2020-05-06 3:40 ` [PATCH v8 01/30] powerpc/xmon: Remove store_inst() for patch_instruction() Jordan Niethe
2020-05-06 3:40 ` [PATCH v8 02/30] powerpc/xmon: Move breakpoint instructions to own array Jordan Niethe
2020-05-06 3:40 ` [PATCH v8 03/30] powerpc/xmon: Move breakpoints to text section Jordan Niethe
2020-05-06 3:40 ` [PATCH v8 04/30] powerpc/xmon: Use bitwise calculations in_breakpoint_table() Jordan Niethe
2020-05-06 3:40 ` [PATCH v8 05/30] powerpc: Change calling convention for create_branch() et. al Jordan Niethe
2020-05-06 3:40 ` [PATCH v8 06/30] powerpc: Use a macro for creating instructions from u32s Jordan Niethe
2020-05-06 3:40 ` [PATCH v8 07/30] powerpc: Use an accessor for instructions Jordan Niethe
2020-05-06 3:40 ` [PATCH v8 08/30] powerpc: Use a function for getting the instruction op code Jordan Niethe
2020-05-15 7:48 ` Jordan Niethe
2020-05-16 11:08 ` Michael Ellerman
2020-05-17 7:41 ` Jordan Niethe
2020-05-06 3:40 ` [PATCH v8 09/30] powerpc: Use a function for byte swapping instructions Jordan Niethe
2020-05-06 3:40 ` [PATCH v8 10/30] powerpc: Introduce functions for instruction equality Jordan Niethe
2020-05-06 3:40 ` [PATCH v8 11/30] powerpc: Use a datatype for instructions Jordan Niethe
2020-05-08 1:51 ` Jordan Niethe
2020-05-08 7:17 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-05-11 1:19 ` Jordan Niethe
2020-05-08 2:15 ` Jordan Niethe
2020-05-17 10:48 ` Jordan Niethe
2020-05-06 3:40 ` [PATCH v8 12/30] powerpc: Use a function for reading instructions Jordan Niethe
2020-05-16 18:39 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-05-17 10:44 ` Jordan Niethe
2020-05-19 4:05 ` Michael Ellerman
2020-05-19 5:03 ` Christophe Leroy [this message]
2020-05-20 4:16 ` Michael Ellerman
2020-05-06 3:40 ` [PATCH v8 13/30] powerpc: Add a probe_user_read_inst() function Jordan Niethe
2020-05-13 12:52 ` Michael Ellerman
2020-05-13 23:51 ` Jordan Niethe
2020-05-14 5:46 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-05-15 3:46 ` Jordan Niethe
2020-05-06 3:40 ` [PATCH v8 14/30] powerpc: Add a probe_kernel_read_inst() function Jordan Niethe
2020-05-06 3:40 ` [PATCH v8 15/30] powerpc/kprobes: Use patch_instruction() Jordan Niethe
2020-05-06 3:40 ` [PATCH v8 16/30] powerpc: Define and use __get_user_instr{, inatomic}() Jordan Niethe
2020-05-13 14:18 ` Michael Ellerman
2020-05-13 23:54 ` Jordan Niethe
2020-05-14 1:43 ` Jordan Niethe
2020-05-06 3:40 ` [PATCH v8 17/30] powerpc: Introduce a function for reporting instruction length Jordan Niethe
2020-05-06 3:40 ` [PATCH v8 18/30] powerpc/xmon: Use a function for reading instructions Jordan Niethe
2020-05-06 3:40 ` [PATCH v8 19/30] powerpc/xmon: Move insertion of breakpoint for xol'ing Jordan Niethe
2020-05-06 3:40 ` [PATCH v8 20/30] powerpc: Make test_translate_branch() independent of instruction length Jordan Niethe
2020-05-06 3:40 ` [PATCH v8 21/30] powerpc: Enable Prefixed Instructions Jordan Niethe
2020-05-06 3:40 ` [PATCH v8 22/30] powerpc: Define new SRR1 bits for a future ISA version Jordan Niethe
2020-05-08 2:26 ` Jordan Niethe
2020-05-06 3:40 ` [PATCH v8 23/30] powerpc: Add prefixed instructions to instruction data type Jordan Niethe
2020-05-14 1:40 ` Jordan Niethe
2020-05-14 6:11 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-05-14 12:06 ` Alistair Popple
2020-05-14 12:29 ` Jordan Niethe
2020-05-14 12:57 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-05-14 12:28 ` Jordan Niethe
2020-05-15 1:33 ` Michael Ellerman
2020-05-15 7:52 ` Jordan Niethe
2020-05-16 11:54 ` [PATCH v8 22.5/30] powerpc/optprobes: Add register argument to patch_imm64_load_insns() Michael Ellerman
2020-06-09 5:51 ` Michael Ellerman
2020-05-06 3:40 ` [PATCH v8 24/30] powerpc: Test prefixed code patching Jordan Niethe
2020-05-15 7:54 ` Jordan Niethe
2020-05-06 3:40 ` [PATCH v8 25/30] powerpc: Test prefixed instructions in feature fixups Jordan Niethe
2020-05-15 7:57 ` Jordan Niethe
2020-05-06 3:40 ` [PATCH v8 26/30] powerpc/xmon: Don't allow breakpoints on suffixes Jordan Niethe
2020-05-06 3:40 ` [PATCH v8 27/30] powerpc/kprobes: " Jordan Niethe
2021-05-18 18:43 ` Christophe Leroy
2021-05-18 19:52 ` Gabriel Paubert
2021-05-19 8:11 ` Naveen N. Rao
2021-05-20 3:45 ` Jordan Niethe
2020-05-06 3:40 ` [PATCH v8 28/30] powerpc: Support prefixed instructions in alignment handler Jordan Niethe
2020-05-14 6:14 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-05-14 12:15 ` Alistair Popple
2020-05-14 12:59 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-05-06 3:40 ` [PATCH v8 29/30] powerpc sstep: Add support for prefixed load/stores Jordan Niethe
2020-05-14 6:15 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-05-14 12:19 ` Alistair Popple
2020-05-14 13:00 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-05-15 7:59 ` Jordan Niethe
2020-05-06 3:40 ` [PATCH v8 30/30] powerpc sstep: Add support for prefixed fixed-point arithmetic Jordan Niethe
2020-05-14 6:15 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-05-15 8:02 ` Jordan Niethe
2020-05-14 5:31 ` [PATCH v8 00/30] Initial Prefixed Instruction support Christophe Leroy
2020-05-14 10:33 ` Jordan Niethe
2020-05-20 10:59 ` Michael Ellerman
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