[PATCH 6/6] Add PPC_NOP_INSTR, a hash define for the preferred nop instruction
Michael Ellerman
michael at ellerman.id.au
Thu May 29 16:21:01 EST 2008
A bunch of code has hard-coded the value for a "nop" instruction, it
would be nice to have a #define for it.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael at ellerman.id.au>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c | 3 ++-
arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c | 2 +-
arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c | 3 ++-
include/asm-powerpc/code-patching.h | 2 ++
4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c
index e44d553..887e190 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <asm/oprofile_impl.h>
+#include <asm/code-patching.h>
#include <asm/cputable.h>
#include <asm/prom.h> /* for PTRRELOC on ARCH=ppc */
@@ -1613,7 +1614,7 @@ void do_feature_fixups(unsigned long value, void *fixup_start, void *fixup_end)
pend = ((unsigned int *)fcur) + (fcur->end_off / 4);
for (p = pstart; p < pend; p++) {
- *p = 0x60000000u;
+ *p = PPC_NOP_INSTR;
asm volatile ("dcbst 0, %0" : : "r" (p));
}
asm volatile ("sync" : : : "memory");
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c
index ee2dac5..2f5e04f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ static void __init create_trampoline(unsigned long addr)
* branch to "addr" we jump to ("addr" + 32 MB). Although it requires
* two instructions it doesn't require any registers.
*/
- patch_instruction(addr, 0x60000000); /* nop */
+ patch_instruction(addr, PPC_NOP_INSTR); /* nop */
patch_branch(addr + 4, addr + PHYSICAL_START, 0);
}
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
index 3a82b02..d5e569a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
#include <asm/module.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/firmware.h>
+#include <asm/code-patching.h>
#include <linux/sort.h>
#include "setup.h"
@@ -346,7 +347,7 @@ static unsigned long stub_for_addr(Elf64_Shdr *sechdrs,
restore r2. */
static int restore_r2(u32 *instruction, struct module *me)
{
- if (*instruction != 0x60000000) {
+ if (*instruction != PPC_NOP_INSTR) {
printk("%s: Expect noop after relocate, got %08x\n",
me->name, *instruction);
return 0;
diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/code-patching.h b/include/asm-powerpc/code-patching.h
index 8b54373..f33d16e 100644
--- a/include/asm-powerpc/code-patching.h
+++ b/include/asm-powerpc/code-patching.h
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
#include <asm/types.h>
+#define PPC_NOP_INSTR 0x60000000
+
/* Flags for create_branch:
* "b" == create_branch(addr, target, 0);
* "ba" == create_branch(addr, target, BRANCH_ABSOLUTE);
--
1.5.5
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