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Currently create_branch() creates a branch instruction for you, and patches it into the call site. In some circumstances it would be nice to be able to create the instruction and patch it later, and also some code might want to check for errors in the branch creation before doing the patching. A future commit will change create_branch() to check for errors. For callers that don't care, replace create_branch() with patch_branch(), which just creates the branch and patches it directly. While we're touching all the callers, change to using unsigned int *, as this seems to match usage better. That allows (and requires) us to remove the volatile in the definition of vector in powermac/smp.c and mpc86xx_smp.c, that's correct because now that we're passing vector as an unsigned int * the compiler knows that it's value might change across the patch_branch() call. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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27 lines
989 B
C
#ifndef _ASM_POWERPC_CODE_PATCHING_H
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#define _ASM_POWERPC_CODE_PATCHING_H
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/*
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* Copyright 2008, Michael Ellerman, IBM Corporation.
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*
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* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
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* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
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* 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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*/
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/* Flags for create_branch:
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* "b" == create_branch(addr, target, 0);
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* "ba" == create_branch(addr, target, BRANCH_ABSOLUTE);
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* "bl" == create_branch(addr, target, BRANCH_SET_LINK);
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* "bla" == create_branch(addr, target, BRANCH_ABSOLUTE | BRANCH_SET_LINK);
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*/
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#define BRANCH_SET_LINK 0x1
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#define BRANCH_ABSOLUTE 0x2
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unsigned int create_branch(const unsigned int *addr,
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unsigned long target, int flags);
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void patch_branch(unsigned int *addr, unsigned long target, int flags);
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void patch_instruction(unsigned int *addr, unsigned int instr);
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#endif /* _ASM_POWERPC_CODE_PATCHING_H */
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