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Commit 3cdfcbfd authored by Paul Mackerras's avatar Paul Mackerras Committed by Michael Ellerman
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powerpc: Change analyse_instr so it doesn't modify *regs



The analyse_instr function currently doesn't just work out what an
instruction does, it also executes those instructions whose effect
is only to update CPU registers that are stored in struct pt_regs.
This is undesirable because optprobes uses analyse_instr to work out
if an instruction could be successfully emulated in future.

This changes analyse_instr so it doesn't modify *regs; instead it
stores information in the instruction_op structure to indicate what
registers (GPRs, CR, XER, LR) would be set and what value they would
be set to.  A companion function called emulate_update_regs() can
then use that information to update a pt_regs struct appropriately.

As a minor cleanup, this replaces inline asm using the cntlzw and
cntlzd instructions with calls to __builtin_clz() and __builtin_clzl().

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
parent 93b2d3cf
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