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From: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com>
To: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au>,
	Balamuruhan S <bala24@linux.ibm.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 07/16] powerpc: Introduce functions for instruction nullity and equality
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 20:31:56 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACzsE9rsQA+HD-4zpdeMmBjEjavJUqHXh21cJKDv2Cf4syg0Gw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1584945440.a20p67lxd6.astroid@bobo.none>

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 5:46 PM Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Jordan Niethe's on March 20, 2020 3:18 pm:
> > In preparation for an instruction data type that can not be directly
> > used with the '==' operator use functions for checking equality and
> > nullity.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c      |  2 +-
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/trace/ftrace.c   | 33 +++++++++++++++-------------
> >  arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c     | 16 +++++++-------
> >  arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c    |  2 +-
> >  arch/powerpc/lib/test_emulate_step.c |  4 ++--
> >  arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c             |  4 ++--
> >  6 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c
> > index 1025a7a3b3a8..6027425a85f2 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c
> > @@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ int arch_prepare_optimized_kprobe(struct optimized_kprobe *op, struct kprobe *p)
> >                               (unsigned long)emulate_step_addr,
> >                               BRANCH_SET_LINK);
> >
> > -     if (!branch_op_callback || !branch_emulate_step)
> > +     if (ppc_inst_null(branch_op_callback) || ppc_inst_null(branch_emulate_step))
>
> Is an instruction null, or zeroes?
ppc_inst_zero() would probably be clearer.
>
> Oh, most of this comes from create_branch and things. Hmm, would rather
> see those functions modified to take a &insn and return an int err.
Good idea.
>
>
> > @@ -437,7 +438,7 @@ int ftrace_make_nop(struct module *mod,
> >        * then we had to use a trampoline to make the call.
> >        * Otherwise just update the call site.
> >        */
> > -     if (test_24bit_addr(ip, addr)) {
> > +     if (!ppc_inst_null(test_24bit_addr(ip, addr))) {
> >               /* within range */
> >               old = ftrace_call_replace(ip, addr, 1);
> >               new = PPC_INST(PPC_INST_NOP);
>
> test_24bit_addr shouldn't be passing a ppc_inst back, but a bool.
True.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-23  9:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-20  5:17 [PATCH v4 00/16] Initial Prefixed Instruction support Jordan Niethe
2020-03-20  5:17 ` [PATCH v4 01/16] powerpc/xmon: Remove store_inst() for patch_instruction() Jordan Niethe
2020-03-23  6:19   ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-03-20  5:17 ` [PATCH v4 02/16] xmon: Move out-of-line instructions to text section Jordan Niethe
2020-03-23  5:59   ` Balamuruhan S
2020-03-23  6:05   ` Balamuruhan S
2020-03-23  9:26     ` Jordan Niethe
2020-03-23  6:22   ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-03-20  5:17 ` [PATCH v4 03/16] powerpc: Use a datatype for instructions Jordan Niethe
2020-03-23  6:07   ` Balamuruhan S
2020-03-23  6:23   ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-03-23  9:28     ` Jordan Niethe
2020-03-23  9:51       ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-03-24  2:58         ` Michael Ellerman
2020-03-24  3:21           ` Jordan Niethe
2020-04-01 10:32   ` Balamuruhan S
2020-04-01 23:52     ` Jordan Niethe
2020-04-02 23:44       ` Alistair Popple
2020-04-03  0:09         ` Jordan Niethe
2020-03-20  5:17 ` [PATCH v4 04/16] powerpc: Use a macro for creating instructions from u32s Jordan Niethe
2020-03-23  6:26   ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-03-23  9:29     ` Jordan Niethe
2020-03-20  5:17 ` [PATCH v4 05/16] powerpc: Use a function for masking instructions Jordan Niethe
2020-03-23  6:37   ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-03-23  9:31     ` Jordan Niethe
2020-03-20  5:17 ` [PATCH v4 06/16] powerpc: Use a function for getting the instruction op code Jordan Niethe
2020-03-23  6:54   ` Balamuruhan S
2020-03-23  9:35     ` Jordan Niethe
2020-03-20  5:18 ` [PATCH v4 07/16] powerpc: Introduce functions for instruction nullity and equality Jordan Niethe
2020-03-23  6:43   ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-03-23  9:31     ` Jordan Niethe [this message]
2020-03-20  5:18 ` [PATCH v4 08/16] powerpc: Use an accessor for word instructions Jordan Niethe
2020-03-23 11:12   ` Balamuruhan S
2020-03-24  3:18     ` Jordan Niethe
2020-03-24  6:22       ` Balamuruhan S
2020-03-20  5:18 ` [PATCH v4 09/16] powerpc: Use a function for reading instructions Jordan Niethe
2020-03-23  8:00   ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-03-23  8:43     ` Balamuruhan S
2020-03-23 10:09     ` Jordan Niethe
2020-03-23 10:36       ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-03-20  5:18 ` [PATCH v4 10/16] powerpc: Make test_translate_branch() independent of instruction length Jordan Niethe
2020-03-20  5:18 ` [PATCH v4 11/16] powerpc: Enable Prefixed Instructions Jordan Niethe
2020-03-23  7:02   ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-03-20  5:18 ` [PATCH v4 12/16] powerpc: Define new SRR1 bits for a future ISA version Jordan Niethe
2020-03-23  7:03   ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-03-20  5:18 ` [PATCH v4 13/16] powerpc: Support prefixed instructions in alignment handler Jordan Niethe
2020-03-23  7:05   ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-03-23  9:35     ` Jordan Niethe
2020-03-20  5:18 ` [PATCH v4 14/16] powerpc64: Add prefixed instructions to instruction data type Jordan Niethe
2020-03-23  6:58   ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-03-23  7:33   ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-03-23 23:45     ` Jordan Niethe
2020-03-24  5:40       ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-03-30  9:05   ` Alistair Popple
2020-03-30  9:13     ` Jordan Niethe
2020-03-20  5:18 ` [PATCH v4 15/16] powerpc sstep: Add support for prefixed load/stores Jordan Niethe
2020-03-23  8:54   ` Balamuruhan S
2020-03-20  5:18 ` [PATCH v4 16/16] powerpc sstep: Add support for prefixed fixed-point arithmetic Jordan Niethe
2020-03-23 10:05   ` Balamuruhan S
2020-03-23  6:18 ` [PATCH v4 00/16] Initial Prefixed Instruction support Nicholas Piggin
2020-03-23  9:25   ` Jordan Niethe
2020-03-23 10:17     ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-03-24  2:54       ` Jordan Niethe
2020-03-24  2:59         ` Jordan Niethe
2020-03-24  5:44         ` Nicholas Piggin

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