linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 00/12] powerpc: Cleanup use of 'struct ppc

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Message-Id: <162398829384.1363949.8760283426768827075.b4-ty@ellerman.id.au>
Date:   Fri, 18 Jun 2021 13:51:33 +1000
From:   Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@...erman.id.au>
To:     Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        jniethe5@...il.com, naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/12] powerpc: Cleanup use of 'struct ppc_inst'

On Thu, 20 May 2021 13:50:37 +0000 (UTC), Christophe Leroy wrote:
> 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.
> 
> [...]

Applied to powerpc/next.

[01/12] powerpc/inst: Fix sparse detection on get_user_instr()
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/b3a9e523237013477bea914b7fbfbe420428b988
[02/12] powerpc/inst: Reduce casts in get_user_instr()
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/9134806e149ebb214f122f0f84254096d3768bb2
[03/12] powerpc/inst: Improve readability of get_user_instr() and friends
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/042e0860e1c1d60a0ab1ff3f16b7f420573133e0
[04/12] powerpc/inst: Avoid pointer dereferencing in ppc_inst_equal()
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/036b5560bebc72c61d955ae0b115e8e69da8a563
[05/12] powerpc: Do not dereference code as 'struct ppc_inst' (uprobe, code-patching, feature-fixups)
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/18c85964b10b7b78a5cb59a4959a5f82fdc77e4c
[06/12] powerpc/lib/code-patching: Make instr_is_branch_to_addr() static
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/6c0d181daabcba286db9711eef8800b566fb1cce
[07/12] powerpc/lib/code-patching: Don't use struct 'ppc_inst' for runnable code in tests.
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/e90a21ea801d1776d9a786ad02354fd3fe23ce09
[08/12] powerpc: Don't use 'struct ppc_inst' to reference instruction location
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/69d4d6e5fd9f4e805280ad831932c3df7b9d7cc7
[09/12] powerpc/inst: Refactor PPC32 and PPC64 versions
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/077c4dedef09796ade917459a5330e3940fb5860
[10/12] powerpc/optprobes: Minimise casts
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/afd3287c8872142ec4298a2b77bd9077e2209c9c
[11/12] powerpc/optprobes: Compact code source a bit.
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/f38adf86ce4fdae84904f420e175ce5806509c4c
[12/12] powerpc/optprobes: use PPC_RAW_ macros
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/0e628ad2d60896de31148fba00cc73623b8c0aa1

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