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From: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: mikey@neuling.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au
Subject: [RFC 5/8] powerpc/slb: Add documentation to runtime patching of SLB encoding
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 12:28:43 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1437461926-8908-5-git-send-email-khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1437461926-8908-1-git-send-email-khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

From: "khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com" <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

This patch adds some documentation to 'patch_slb_encoding' function
explaining about how it clears the existing immediate value in the
given instruction and inserts a new one there.

Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c
index dcba4c2..8083a9e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c
@@ -278,7 +278,13 @@ void switch_slb(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm)
 static inline void patch_slb_encoding(unsigned int *insn_addr,
 				      unsigned int immed)
 {
-	int insn = (*insn_addr & 0xffff0000) | immed;
+	/*
+	 * Currently this patches only "li" and "cmpldi"
+	 * instructions with an immediate value. Here it
+	 * just clears the existing immediate value from
+	 * the instruction and inserts a new one there.
+	 */
+	unsigned int insn = (*insn_addr & 0xffff0000) | immed;
 	patch_instruction(insn_addr, insn);
 }
 
-- 
2.1.0

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-21  6:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-21  6:58 [RFC 1/8] powerpc/slb: Remove a duplicate extern variable Anshuman Khandual
2015-07-21  6:58 ` [RFC 2/8] powerpc/slb: Rename all the 'entry' occurrences to 'slot' Anshuman Khandual
2015-07-21  9:46   ` [RFC, " Michael Ellerman
2015-07-21 11:23     ` [RFC,2/8] " Anshuman Khandual
2015-07-21  6:58 ` [RFC 3/8] powerpc/slb: Define macros for the bolted slots Anshuman Khandual
2015-07-22  9:32   ` Michael Ellerman
2015-07-21  6:58 ` [RFC 4/8] powerpc/slb: Add some helper functions to improve modularization Anshuman Khandual
2015-07-22  9:19   ` Michael Ellerman
2015-07-21  6:58 ` Anshuman Khandual [this message]
2015-07-22  5:51   ` [RFC 5/8] powerpc/slb: Add documentation to runtime patching of SLB encoding Michael Ellerman
2015-07-22  5:57     ` Gabriel Paubert
2015-07-22  9:01       ` Michael Ellerman
2015-07-22 12:17     ` Segher Boessenkool
2015-07-21  6:58 ` [RFC 6/8] powerpc/prom: Simplify the logic while fetching SLB size Anshuman Khandual
2015-07-21 10:21   ` [RFC, " Michael Ellerman
2015-07-21 11:24     ` Anshuman Khandual
2015-07-21  6:58 ` [RFC 7/8] powerpc/xmon: Drop 'valid' from the condition inside 'dump_segments' Anshuman Khandual
2015-07-21 10:00   ` [RFC, " Michael Ellerman
2015-07-21 11:45     ` Anshuman Khandual
2015-07-22  4:52       ` Michael Ellerman
2015-07-21  6:58 ` [RFC 8/8] powerpc/xmon: Add some more elements to the existing PACA dump list Anshuman Khandual
2015-07-21 10:08   ` [RFC, " Michael Ellerman
2015-07-21 11:48     ` Anshuman Khandual

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