[PATCH] ARM: alignment: Use is_wide_instruction() to check wide instruction
Yingjoe Chen
yingjoe.chen at mediatek.com
Thu May 7 00:03:51 PDT 2015
On Fri, 2015-04-10 at 22:05 +0800, Yingjoe Chen wrote:
> I first notice the comment is incorrect, then I realize there's another
> macro which do exactly the same thing.
> Tested with hand written userspace program with a few wide instructions
> to make sure this still work as expect.
>
> 8<-------------------------------------------------
> do_alignment() is using locally added IS_T32() macro to check if an
> instruction is a Thumb-2 32 bit instruction. The macro
> is_wide_instruction() is doing the same thing, with slightly faster
> implementation.
> Change to use is_wide_instruction() in do_alignment() and remove
> IS_T32().
>
Hi Russell,
Any suggestion about this patch?
Should I put this into your patch system?
Joe.C
> Signed-off-by: Yingjoe Chen <yingjoe.chen at mediatek.com>
> ---
> arch/arm/mm/alignment.c | 6 +-----
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c b/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c
> index 2c0c541..f8e82f5 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c
> @@ -71,10 +71,6 @@
>
> #define BAD_INSTR 0xdeadc0de
>
> -/* Thumb-2 32 bit format per ARMv7 DDI0406A A6.3, either f800h,e800h,f800h */
> -#define IS_T32(hi16) \
> - (((hi16) & 0xe000) == 0xe000 && ((hi16) & 0x1800))
> -
> static unsigned long ai_user;
> static unsigned long ai_sys;
> static void *ai_sys_last_pc;
> @@ -770,7 +766,7 @@ do_alignment(unsigned long addr, unsigned int fsr, struct pt_regs *regs)
> tinstr = __mem_to_opcode_thumb16(tinstr);
> if (!fault) {
> if (cpu_architecture() >= CPU_ARCH_ARMv7 &&
> - IS_T32(tinstr)) {
> + is_wide_instruction(tinstr)) {
> /* Thumb-2 32-bit */
> u16 tinst2 = 0;
> fault = probe_kernel_address(ptr + 1, tinst2);
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