Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] powerpc/module32: Use symbolic instructions names.

From: Segher Boessenkool <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 06:54:31 -0500

On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 10:43:27AM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> To increase readability/maintainability, replace hard coded
> instructions values by symbolic names.

> +	/* lis r12,sym@ha */
> +#define ENTRY_JMP0(sym)	(PPC_INST_ADDIS | __PPC_RT(R12) | PPC_HA(sym))
> +	/* addi r12,r12,sym@l */
> +#define ENTRY_JMP1(sym)	(PPC_INST_ADDI | __PPC_RT(R12) | __PPC_RA(R12) | PPC_LO(sym))

Those aren't "jump" instructions though, as the name suggests...  And you
only have names for the first two of the four insns.  ("2" and "3" were
still available ;-) )

> -	entry->jump[0] = 0x3d800000+((val+0x8000)>>16); /* lis r12,sym@ha */
> -	entry->jump[1] = 0x398c0000 + (val&0xffff);     /* addi r12,r12,sym@l*/
> -	entry->jump[2] = 0x7d8903a6;                    /* mtctr r12 */
> -	entry->jump[3] = 0x4e800420;			/* bctr */
> +	entry->jump[0] = ENTRY_JMP0(val);
> +	entry->jump[1] = ENTRY_JMP1(val);
> +	entry->jump[2] = PPC_INST_MTCTR | __PPC_RS(R12);
> +	entry->jump[3] = PPC_INST_BCTR;

Deleting the comment here is not an improvement imo.

Segher