[PATCH] powerpc: Add ppc_inst_next()

Jordan Niethe jniethe5 at gmail.com
Wed May 20 22:21:00 AEST 2020


On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 9:44 PM Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> wrote:
>
> In a few places we want to calculate the address of the next
> instruction. Previously that was simple, we just added 4 bytes, or if
> using a u32 * we incremented that pointer by 1.
>
> But prefixed instructions make it more complicated, we need to advance
> by either 4 or 8 bytes depending on the actual instruction. We also
> can't do pointer arithmetic using struct ppc_inst, because it is
> always 8 bytes in size on 64-bit, even though we might only need to
> advance by 4 bytes.
>
> So add a ppc_inst_next() helper which calculates the location of the
> next instruction, if the given instruction was located at the given
> address. Note the instruction doesn't need to actually be at the
> address in memory.
>
> Convert several locations to use it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/inst.h   |  9 +++++++++
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/uprobes.c     |  2 +-
>  arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c | 10 +++++-----
>  arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c          |  2 +-
>  4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/inst.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/inst.h
> index d82e0c99cfa1..7d5ee1309b92 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/inst.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/inst.h
> @@ -100,6 +100,15 @@ static inline int ppc_inst_len(struct ppc_inst x)
>         return ppc_inst_prefixed(x) ? 8 : 4;
>  }
>
> +/*
> + * Return the address of the next instruction, if the instruction @value was
> + * located at @location.
> + */
> +static inline struct ppc_inst *ppc_inst_next(void *location, struct ppc_inst value)
> +{
> +       return location + ppc_inst_len(value);
> +}
I think this is a good idea. I tried something similar in the initial
post for an instruction type. I had:
+#define PPC_INST_NEXT(ptr) ((ptr) += PPC_INST_LEN(DEREF_PPC_INST_PTR((ptr))))
but how you've got it is much more clear/usable.
I wonder why not
+static inline struct ppc_inst *ppc_inst_next(void *location)
+{
+       return location + ppc_inst_len(ppc_inst_read((struct ppc_inst
*)location);
+}

> +
>  int probe_user_read_inst(struct ppc_inst *inst,
>                          struct ppc_inst __user *nip);
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/uprobes.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/uprobes.c
> index 83e883e1a42d..683ba76919a7 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/uprobes.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/uprobes.c
> @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ int arch_uprobe_post_xol(struct arch_uprobe *auprobe, struct pt_regs *regs)
>          * support doesn't exist and have to fix-up the next instruction
>          * to be executed.
>          */
> -       regs->nip = utask->vaddr + ppc_inst_len(ppc_inst_read(&auprobe->insn));
> +       regs->nip = (unsigned long)ppc_inst_next((void *)utask->vaddr, auprobe->insn);
>
>         user_disable_single_step(current);
>         return 0;
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c b/arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c
> index 80f320c2e189..0ad01eebf112 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c
> @@ -84,13 +84,13 @@ static int patch_feature_section(unsigned long value, struct fixup_entry *fcur)
>         src = alt_start;
>         dest = start;
>
> -       for (; src < alt_end; src = (void *)src + ppc_inst_len(ppc_inst_read(src)),
> -            (dest = (void *)dest + ppc_inst_len(ppc_inst_read(dest)))) {
> +       for (; src < alt_end; src = ppc_inst_next(src, *src),
> +                             dest = ppc_inst_next(dest, *dest)) {
The reason to maybe use ppc_inst_read() in the helper instead of just
*dest would be we don't always need to read 8 bytes.
>                 if (patch_alt_instruction(src, dest, alt_start, alt_end))
>                         return 1;
>         }
>
> -       for (; dest < end; dest = (void *)dest + ppc_inst_len(ppc_inst(PPC_INST_NOP)))
> +       for (; dest < end; dest = ppc_inst_next(dest, ppc_inst(PPC_INST_NOP)))
But then you wouldn't be able to do this as easily I guess.
>                 raw_patch_instruction(dest, ppc_inst(PPC_INST_NOP));
>
>         return 0;
> @@ -405,8 +405,8 @@ static void do_final_fixups(void)
>         while (src < end) {
>                 inst = ppc_inst_read(src);
>                 raw_patch_instruction(dest, inst);
> -               src = (void *)src + ppc_inst_len(inst);
> -               dest = (void *)dest + ppc_inst_len(inst);
> +               src = ppc_inst_next(src, *src);
> +               dest = ppc_inst_next(dest, *dest);
>         }
>  #endif
>  }
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c b/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c
> index fb135f2cd6b0..aa123f56b7d4 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c
> @@ -939,7 +939,7 @@ static void insert_bpts(void)
>                 }
>
>                 patch_instruction(bp->instr, instr);
> -               patch_instruction((void *)bp->instr + ppc_inst_len(instr),
> +               patch_instruction(ppc_inst_next(bp->instr, instr),
>                                   ppc_inst(bpinstr));
>                 if (bp->enabled & BP_CIABR)
>                         continue;
> --
> 2.25.1
>


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