[PATCH 0/4] arm64: insn: cleanups

Joey Gouly joey.gouly at arm.com
Tue Nov 15 03:09:28 PST 2022


Hi,

On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 01:59:24PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> This series makes some minor cleanups to the insn code. Largely this
> changes a number of trivial functions to be __always_inline, making them
> safe to use in noinstr code, and permitting the compiler to better
> optimize sequences of aarch64_insn_is_*() checks.
> 
> I've split this out from a larger set of changes I was planning to send
> this cycle (refactoring the bulk of the insn code) as that's not quite
> complete and I'm still writing tests for the larger changes those come
> with.
> 
> 
> The changes in this series are all relatively trivial, and should result
> in no functional change, so I'm hoping they're good-to-go as-is.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark.
> 
> Mark Rutland (4):
>   arm64: insn: remove aarch64_insn_gen_prefetch()
>   arm64: insn: always inline predicates
>   arm64: insn: simplify insn group identification
>   arm64: insn: always inline hint generation
> 
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h          | 156 ++++++++++++++++-------
>  arch/arm64/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c |   2 +-
>  arch/arm64/lib/insn.c                  | 165 -------------------------
>  3 files changed, 110 insertions(+), 213 deletions(-)
> 

For the series:

Reviewed-by: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly at arm.com>

Thanks,
Joey



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