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Commit c87ef117 authored by Michael Ellerman's avatar Michael Ellerman
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powerpc: Add helper functions for synthesising instructions at runtime 



There's a few places already, and soon will be more, where we synthesise
branch instructions at runtime. Rather than doing it by hand in each case,
it would make sense to have one implementation.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
parent e19e4ab4

include/asm-powerpc/system.h

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@@ -359,5 +359,53 @@ extern void reloc_got2(unsigned long); 


#define PTRRELOC(x)	((typeof(x)) add_reloc_offset((unsigned long)(x)))



static inline void create_instruction(unsigned long addr, unsigned int instr)

{

	unsigned int *p;

	p  = (unsigned int *)addr;

	*p = instr;

	asm ("dcbst 0, %0; sync; icbi 0,%0; sync; isync" : : "r" (p));

}



/* Flags for create_branch:

 * "b"   == create_branch(addr, target, 0);

 * "ba"  == create_branch(addr, target, BRANCH_ABSOLUTE);

 * "bl"  == create_branch(addr, target, BRANCH_SET_LINK);

 * "bla" == create_branch(addr, target, BRANCH_ABSOLUTE | BRANCH_SET_LINK);

 */

#define BRANCH_SET_LINK	0x1

#define BRANCH_ABSOLUTE	0x2



static inline void create_branch(unsigned long addr,

		unsigned long target, int flags)

{

	unsigned int instruction;



	if (! (flags & BRANCH_ABSOLUTE))

		target = target - addr;



	/* Mask out the flags and target, so they don't step on each other. */

	instruction = 0x48000000 | (flags & 0x3) | (target & 0x03FFFFFC);



	create_instruction(addr, instruction);

}



static inline void create_function_call(unsigned long addr, void * func)

{

	unsigned long func_addr;



#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64

	/*

	 * On PPC64 the function pointer actually points to the function's

	 * descriptor. The first entry in the descriptor is the address

	 * of the function text.

	 */

	func_addr = *(unsigned long *)func;

#else

	func_addr = (unsigned long)func;

#endif

	create_branch(addr, func_addr, BRANCH_SET_LINK);

}



#endif /* __KERNEL__ */

#endif /* _ASM_POWERPC_SYSTEM_H */