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powerpc: Use a function for reading instructions

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Prefixed instructions will mean there are instructions of different
length. As a result dereferencing a pointer to an instruction will not
necessarily give the desired result. Introduce a function for reading
instructions from memory into the instruction data type.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-13-jniethe5@gmail.com
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Jordan Niethe
2020-05-06 13:40:32 +10:00
committed by Michael Ellerman
parent 94afd069d9
commit f8faaffaa7
9 changed files with 33 additions and 26 deletions
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@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ static int patch_alt_instruction(struct ppc_inst *src, struct ppc_inst *dest,
int err;
struct ppc_inst instr;
instr = *src;
instr = ppc_inst_read(src);
if (instr_is_relative_branch(*src)) {
struct ppc_inst *target = (struct ppc_inst *)branch_target(src);
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ static void do_final_fixups(void)
length = (__end_interrupts - _stext) / sizeof(struct ppc_inst);
while (length--) {
raw_patch_instruction(dest, *src);
raw_patch_instruction(dest, ppc_inst_read(src));
src++;
dest++;
}