[RFC PATCH] ARM: Add generic instruction opcode manipulation helpers

[Dave Martin]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 10:56:40PM +0530, Rabin Vincent wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 05:41:22PM +0000, Dave Martin wrote:
> > Rabin, did the __opcode_read stuff look useful for ftrace?  My idea
> > was to factor out the logic of how to read/write a whole instruction,
> > but my proposal may be overkill...
> 
> No.  ftrace just uses probe_kernel_read() and always reads a 32-bit
> instruction.

Right -- fair enough.

---Dave