[PATCH v2 00/12] powerpc: Cleanup use of 'struct ppc_inst'

From: Christophe Leroy
Date: Thu May 20 2021 - 09:50:43 EST


This series is a cleanup of the use of 'struct ppc_inst'.

A confusion is made between internal representation of powerpc
instructions with 'struct ppc_inst' and in-memory code which is
and will always be an array of 'unsigned int'.

This series cleans it up.

First patch is fixing detection of missing '__user' flag by sparse
when using get_user_instr().

Last part of the series does some source code cleanup in
optprobes, it is put at the ends of this series because of
clashes with the 'struct ppc_inst' cleanups.

Changes in v2:
- Temporarily don't use get_op() and don't include asm/disassemble.h in asm/inst.h because it exhibits a conflict for function get_ra() with drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/wifi.h
- Fix a create_branch() in ftrace and take copy_inst_from_kernel_nofault() into account

Christophe Leroy (12):
powerpc/inst: Fix sparse detection on get_user_instr()
powerpc/inst: Reduce casts in get_user_instr()
powerpc/inst: Improve readability of get_user_instr() and friends
powerpc/inst: Avoid pointer dereferencing in ppc_inst_equal()
powerpc: Do not dereference code as 'struct ppc_inst' (uprobe,
code-patching, feature-fixups)
powerpc/lib/code-patching: Make instr_is_branch_to_addr() static
powerpc/lib/code-patching: Don't use struct 'ppc_inst' for runnable
code in tests.
powerpc: Don't use 'struct ppc_inst' to reference instruction location
powerpc/inst: Refactor PPC32 and PPC64 versions
powerpc/optprobes: Minimise casts
powerpc/optprobes: Compact code source a bit.
powerpc/optprobes: use PPC_RAW_ macros

arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h | 23 ++-
arch/powerpc/include/asm/inst.h | 92 +++++-------
arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc-opcode.h | 11 +-
arch/powerpc/include/asm/uprobes.h | 4 +-
arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c | 4 +-
arch/powerpc/kernel/epapr_paravirt.c | 4 +-
arch/powerpc/kernel/jump_label.c | 2 +-
arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c | 6 +-
arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c | 17 ++-
arch/powerpc/kernel/mce_power.c | 2 +-
arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c | 124 +++++-----------
arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c | 2 +-
arch/powerpc/kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 33 +++--
arch/powerpc/kernel/uprobes.c | 6 +-
arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c | 165 ++++++++++++----------
arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c | 98 ++++++-------
arch/powerpc/mm/maccess.c | 4 +-
arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c | 4 +-
arch/powerpc/platforms/86xx/mpc86xx_smp.c | 2 +-
arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/smp.c | 4 +-
arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c | 10 +-
21 files changed, 277 insertions(+), 340 deletions(-)

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