[PATCH v2 07/13] ARM: move generic thumb instruction parsing code to new files for use by other features

[Jon Medhurst (Tixy)]

On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 17:04 -0400, David Long wrote:
> From: "David A. Long" <dave.long at linaro.org>
> 
> Move the thumb version of the kprobes instruction parsing code into more generic

This patch is moving the 'ARM' instructions, not 'thumb' instructions,
so both description and title needs fixing for that.

Actually, after looking at patch 08/13, that one seems to erroneously
include the thumb reorg, I'm guessing that was meant to be in this patch
instead, or in a standalone patch?

> files from where it can be used by uprobes and possibly other subsystems. The
> symbol names will be made more generic in a subsequent part of this patchset.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David A. Long <dave.long at linaro.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm/include/asm/probes.h    |   2 +
>  arch/arm/kernel/Makefile         |   4 +-
>  arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-arm.c    | 723 +-------------------------------------
>  arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-common.c | 422 +---------------------
>  arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-test.c   |   1 +
>  arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-thumb.c  |   1 +
>  arch/arm/kernel/kprobes.c        |   1 +
>  arch/arm/kernel/kprobes.h        | 372 --------------------
>  arch/arm/kernel/probes-arm.c     | 730 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/arm/kernel/probes-arm.h     |  38 ++
>  arch/arm/kernel/probes.c         | 441 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/arm/kernel/probes.h         | 395 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  12 files changed, 1622 insertions(+), 1508 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/kernel/probes-arm.c
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/kernel/probes-arm.h
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/kernel/probes.c
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/kernel/probes.h

A git tip: if you use the -C argument with git format-patch (and
send-email I assume) then it will detect files which are copies of
others and produce a much smaller patch, as well as a more informative
file summary. I believe that this is OK for submissions posted to
mailing lists, I know that I've seen people regularly reminded to use -M
(which detects file renames).

[...]

> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-arm.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-arm.c
> @@ -63,10 +63,8 @@
>  #include <linux/module.h>
>  
>  #include "kprobes.h"
> -
> -#define sign_extend(x, signbit) ((x) | (0 - ((x) & (1 << (signbit)))))
> -
> -#define branch_displacement(insn) sign_extend(((insn) & 0xffffff) << 2, 25)
> +#include "probes.h"

Rather than include "probes.h" after "kprobes.h" here, (and in the other
7 places in this patch, and other patches) I think it would make more
sense to have kprobes.h include probes.h as kprobes code is always going
to depend on the new generic probe functions. 

I've trimmed the rest of this large patch as I have no other comments
except the above.

-- 
Tixy