[RFC PATCH v2 00/12] Reduce ifdef mess in ptrace

[Christophe Leroy]

Hi Mikey,

Le 28/06/2019 à 17:47, Christophe Leroy a écrit :
> The purpose of this series is to reduce the amount of #ifdefs
> in ptrace.c
> 

Any feedback on this series which aims at fixing the issue you opened at 
https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/128 ?

Thanks
Christophe

> This is a first try. Most of it is done, there are still some #ifdefs that
> could go away.
> 
> Please comment and tell whether it is worth continuing in that direction.
> 
> v2:
> - Fixed several build failures. Now builts cleanly on kisskb, see http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/head/840e53cf913d6096dd60181a085f102c85d6e526/
> - Droped last patch which is not related to ptrace and can be applies independently.
> 
> Christophe Leroy (12):
>    powerpc: move ptrace into a subdirectory.
>    powerpc/ptrace: drop unnecessary #ifdefs CONFIG_PPC64
>    powerpc/ptrace: drop PARAMETER_SAVE_AREA_OFFSET
>    powerpc/ptrace: split out VSX related functions.
>    powerpc/ptrace: split out ALTIVEC related functions.
>    powerpc/ptrace: split out SPE related functions.
>    powerpc/ptrace: split out TRANSACTIONAL_MEM related functions.
>    powerpc/ptrace: move register viewing functions out of ptrace.c
>    powerpc/ptrace: split out ADV_DEBUG_REGS related functions.
>    powerpc/ptrace: create ptrace_get_debugreg()
>    powerpc/ptrace: create ppc_gethwdinfo()
>    powerpc/ptrace: move ptrace_triggered() into hw_breakpoint.c
> 
>   arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h           |    9 +-
>   arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h      |   12 +-
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile                |    7 +-
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c         |   16 +
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c                | 3402 ---------------------------
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/Makefile         |   20 +
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace-adv.c     |  511 ++++
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace-altivec.c |  151 ++
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace-decl.h    |  184 ++
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace-noadv.c   |  291 +++
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace-novsx.c   |   83 +
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace-spe.c     |   92 +
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace-tm.c      |  879 +++++++
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace-view.c    |  953 ++++++++
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace-vsx.c     |  177 ++
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace.c         |  430 ++++
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/{ => ptrace}/ptrace32.c |    0
>   17 files changed, 3798 insertions(+), 3419 deletions(-)
>   delete mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
>   create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/Makefile
>   create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace-adv.c
>   create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace-altivec.c
>   create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace-decl.h
>   create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace-noadv.c
>   create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace-novsx.c
>   create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace-spe.c
>   create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace-tm.c
>   create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace-view.c
>   create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace-vsx.c
>   create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace.c
>   rename arch/powerpc/kernel/{ => ptrace}/ptrace32.c (100%)
>