A bunch of code has hard-coded the value for a "nop" instruction, it
would be nice to have a #define for it.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: NKumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

This commit adds some new routines for patching code, which will be used
in a following commit.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

Because function pointers point to different things on 32-bit vs 64-bit,
add a macro that deals with dereferencing the OPD on 64-bit.  The soon to
be merged ftrace wants this, as well as other code I am working on.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: NKumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

Currently create_branch() creates a branch instruction for you, and
patches it into the call site.  In some circumstances it would be nice
to be able to create the instruction and patch it later, and also some
code might want to check for errors in the branch creation before
doing the patching.  A future commit will change create_branch() to
check for errors.

For callers that don't care, replace create_branch() with
patch_branch(), which just creates the branch and patches it directly.

While we're touching all the callers, change to using unsigned int *,
as this seems to match usage better.  That allows (and requires) us to
remove the volatile in the definition of vector in powermac/smp.c and
mpc86xx_smp.c, that's correct because now that we're passing vector as
an unsigned int * the compiler knows that it's value might change
across the patch_branch() call.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: NKumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: NJon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

We currently have a few routines for patching code in asm/system.h, because
they didn't fit anywhere else. I'd like to clean them up a little and add
some more, so first move them into a dedicated C file - they don't need to
be inlined.

While we're moving the code, drop create_function_call(), it's intended
caller never got merged and will be replaced in future with something
different.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: NKumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>