[PATCH v2 4/6] ARM: mm: LPAE: Correct virt_to_phys patching for 64 bit physical addresses

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Thu, 1 Aug 2013, Sricharan R wrote:

> Just, had another way of implementing this without using the
> 'opcodes'. By adding a additional data in the stub which would identify
> the previous instruction instead of using opcodes. This can make the
> patching code little simpler.
> Incase, if using opcodes is not good. Like this,
> 
> #define PATCH_ADDS      0
> #define PATCH_ADDC      1

No.  In general the patching code doesn't need to care about the 
instruction being patched.  It only needs to know what value to patch 
in.  See my previous email.



Nicolas