Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 00/12] powerpc: Cleanup use of 'struct ppc_inst' | From | Christophe Leroy <> | Date | Tue, 8 Jun 2021 14:46:22 +0200 |
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Hi Michael,
Le 20/05/2021 à 15:50, Christophe Leroy a écrit : > This series is a cleanup of the use of 'struct ppc_inst'. > > A confusion is made between internal representation of powerpc > instructions with 'struct ppc_inst' and in-memory code which is > and will always be an array of 'unsigned int'. > > This series cleans it up. > > First patch is fixing detection of missing '__user' flag by sparse > when using get_user_instr(). > > Last part of the series does some source code cleanup in > optprobes, it is put at the ends of this series because of > clashes with the 'struct ppc_inst' cleanups.
What are your plans about this series ? I fear that the more we wait the more we get additional bad uses of 'struct ppc_inst'. There are several people working around places that play with instructions, so I think the sooner it gets cleaned the better it is. Do you agree ?
Thanks Christophe
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