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From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com, jniethe5@gmail.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 08/12] powerpc: Don't use 'struct ppc_inst' to reference instruction location
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 12:01:08 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871r93vqcb.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7062722b087228e42cbd896e39bfdf526d6a340a.1621516826.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>

Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> writes:
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/inst.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/inst.h
> index 5a0740ebf132..32d318c3b180 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/inst.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/inst.h
> @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ static inline int ppc_inst_len(struct ppc_inst x)
>   * Return the address of the next instruction, if the instruction @value was
>   * located at @location.
>   */
> -static inline struct ppc_inst *ppc_inst_next(void *location, struct ppc_inst *value)
> +static inline unsigned int *ppc_inst_next(unsigned int *location, unsigned int *value)
>  {
>  	struct ppc_inst tmp;
>  

It's not visible in the diff, but the rest of the function is:

	tmp = ppc_inst_read(value);

	return location + ppc_inst_len(tmp);
}

And so changing the type of location from void * to int * changes the
result of that addition, ie. previously it was in units of bytes, now
it's units of 4 bytes.

To fix it I've kept location as unsigned int *, and added a cast where
we do the addition. That way users of the function just see unsigned int *,
the cast to void * is an implementation detail.

We only have a handful of uses of ppc_inst_len(), so maybe that should
change name and return a result in units of int *. But that can be a
separate change.

> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/86xx/mpc86xx_smp.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/86xx/mpc86xx_smp.c
> index 87f524e4b09c..302f2a1e0361 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/86xx/mpc86xx_smp.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/86xx/mpc86xx_smp.c
> @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ smp_86xx_kick_cpu(int nr)
>  		mdelay(1);
>  
>  	/* Restore the exception vector */
> -	patch_instruction((struct ppc_inst *)vector, ppc_inst(save_vector));
> +	patch_instruction(vector, ppc_inst(save_vector));
>  
>  	local_irq_restore(flags);
>  

There was another usage in here:

 	/* Setup fake reset vector to call __secondary_start_mpc86xx. */
 	target = (unsigned long) __secondary_start_mpc86xx;
-	patch_branch((struct ppc_inst *)vector, target, BRANCH_SET_LINK);
+	patch_branch(vector, target, BRANCH_SET_LINK);
 
 	/* Kick that CPU */
 	smp_86xx_release_core(nr);

I fixed it up.

cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-15  2:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-20 13:50 [PATCH v2 00/12] powerpc: Cleanup use of 'struct ppc_inst' Christophe Leroy
2021-05-20 13:50 ` [PATCH v2 01/12] powerpc/inst: Fix sparse detection on get_user_instr() Christophe Leroy
2021-05-20 13:50 ` [PATCH v2 02/12] powerpc/inst: Reduce casts in get_user_instr() Christophe Leroy
2021-05-20 13:50 ` [PATCH v2 03/12] powerpc/inst: Improve readability of get_user_instr() and friends Christophe Leroy
2021-05-20 13:50 ` [PATCH v2 04/12] powerpc/inst: Avoid pointer dereferencing in ppc_inst_equal() Christophe Leroy
2021-06-15  3:38   ` Jordan Niethe
2021-05-20 13:50 ` [PATCH v2 05/12] powerpc: Do not dereference code as 'struct ppc_inst' (uprobe, code-patching, feature-fixups) Christophe Leroy
2021-06-15  3:41   ` Jordan Niethe
2021-05-20 13:50 ` [PATCH v2 06/12] powerpc/lib/code-patching: Make instr_is_branch_to_addr() static Christophe Leroy
2021-06-15  3:42   ` Jordan Niethe
2021-05-20 13:50 ` [PATCH v2 07/12] powerpc/lib/code-patching: Don't use struct 'ppc_inst' for runnable code in tests Christophe Leroy
2021-06-15  3:42   ` Jordan Niethe
2021-05-20 13:50 ` [PATCH v2 08/12] powerpc: Don't use 'struct ppc_inst' to reference instruction location Christophe Leroy
2021-06-15  2:01   ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2021-06-15  3:47     ` Jordan Niethe
2021-05-20 13:50 ` [PATCH v2 09/12] powerpc/inst: Refactor PPC32 and PPC64 versions Christophe Leroy
2021-06-15  3:48   ` Jordan Niethe
2021-05-20 13:50 ` [PATCH v2 10/12] powerpc/optprobes: Minimise casts Christophe Leroy
2021-05-20 13:50 ` [PATCH v2 11/12] powerpc/optprobes: Compact code source a bit Christophe Leroy
2021-05-20 13:50 ` [PATCH v2 12/12] powerpc/optprobes: use PPC_RAW_ macros Christophe Leroy
2021-06-08 12:46 ` [PATCH v2 00/12] powerpc: Cleanup use of 'struct ppc_inst' Christophe Leroy
2021-06-15  7:18 ` Michael Ellerman
2021-06-15  7:24   ` Christophe Leroy
2021-06-16 13:05     ` Michael Ellerman
2021-06-18  3:51 ` Michael Ellerman

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