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authorGravatar Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com> 2020-05-06 13:40:31 +1000
committerGravatar Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> 2020-05-19 00:10:37 +1000
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parentpowerpc: Introduce functions for instruction equality (diff)
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powerpc: Use a datatype for instructions
Currently unsigned ints are used to represent instructions on powerpc. This has worked well as instructions have always been 4 byte words. However, ISA v3.1 introduces some changes to instructions that mean this scheme will no longer work as well. This change is Prefixed Instructions. A prefixed instruction is made up of a word prefix followed by a word suffix to make an 8 byte double word instruction. No matter the endianness of the system the prefix always comes first. Prefixed instructions are only planned for powerpc64. Introduce a ppc_inst type to represent both prefixed and word instructions on powerpc64 while keeping it possible to exclusively have word instructions on powerpc32. Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com> [mpe: Fix compile error in emulate_spe()] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-12-jniethe5@gmail.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/vecemu.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/vecemu.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vecemu.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vecemu.c
index a544590b90e5..3dd70eeb10c5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vecemu.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vecemu.c
@@ -261,11 +261,12 @@ static unsigned int rfin(unsigned int x)
int emulate_altivec(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
- unsigned int instr, i, word;
+ struct ppc_inst instr;
+ unsigned int i, word;
unsigned int va, vb, vc, vd;
vector128 *vrs;
- if (get_user(instr, (unsigned int __user *) regs->nip))
+ if (get_user(instr.val, (unsigned int __user *)regs->nip))
return -EFAULT;
word = ppc_inst_val(instr);