powerpc, ftrace: use unsigned int for instruction manipulation

The original port of ftrace to PowerPC kept a lot of the code used
by x86. Some of this code was to handle x86's 5 byte instruction.
This was handled by using character arrays to manipulate the
code.

PowerPC has a consistent 4 byte instruction. Using unsigned ints
makes the code more efficient as well as more readable.
By converting to use unsigned ints to represent instructions,
I was able to remove the side effects that were needed for
manipulating character strings.

  i.e. memcpy and memcmp

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 27 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ftrace.c
index dddd99bbbd8d..610c852b92ed 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ftrace.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ftrace.c
@@ -31,22 +31,20 @@
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
-static unsigned int ftrace_nop = PPC_NOP_INSTR;
-
 static unsigned int ftrace_calc_offset(long ip, long addr)
 {
         return (int)(addr - ip);
 }
 
-static unsigned char *ftrace_nop_replace(void)
+static unsigned int ftrace_nop_replace(void)
 {
-        return (char *)&ftrace_nop;
+        return PPC_NOP_INSTR;
 }
 
-static unsigned char *
+static unsigned int
 ftrace_call_replace(unsigned long ip, unsigned long addr, int link)
 {
-        static unsigned int op;
+        unsigned int op;
 
         /*
          * It would be nice to just use create_function_call, but that will
@@ -60,11 +58,7 @@ ftrace_call_replace(unsigned long ip, unsigned long addr, int link)
         op = 0x48000000 | (link ? 1 : 0);
         op |= (ftrace_calc_offset(ip, addr) & 0x03fffffc);
 
-        /*
-         * No locking needed, this must be called via kstop_machine
-         * which in essence is like running on a uniprocessor machine.
-         */
-        return (unsigned char *)&op;
+        return op;
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
@@ -76,10 +70,9 @@ ftrace_call_replace(unsigned long ip, unsigned long addr, int link)
 #endif
 
 static int
-ftrace_modify_code(unsigned long ip, unsigned char *old_code,
-                   unsigned char *new_code)
+ftrace_modify_code(unsigned long ip, unsigned int old, unsigned int new)
 {
-        unsigned char replaced[MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE];
+        unsigned int replaced;
 
         /*
          * Note: Due to modules and __init, code can
@@ -92,15 +85,15 @@ ftrace_modify_code(unsigned long ip, unsigned char *old_code,
          */
 
         /* read the text we want to modify */
-        if (probe_kernel_read(replaced, (void *)ip, MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE))
+        if (probe_kernel_read(&replaced, (void *)ip, MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE))
                 return -EFAULT;
 
         /* Make sure it is what we expect it to be */
-        if (memcmp(replaced, old_code, MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE) != 0)
+        if (replaced != old)
                 return -EINVAL;
 
         /* replace the text with the new text */
-        if (probe_kernel_write((void *)ip, new_code, MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE))
+        if (probe_kernel_write((void *)ip, &new, MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE))
                 return -EPERM;
 
         flush_icache_range(ip, ip + 8);
@@ -336,8 +329,8 @@ __ftrace_make_nop(struct module *mod,
 int ftrace_make_nop(struct module *mod,
                     struct dyn_ftrace *rec, unsigned long addr)
 {
-        unsigned char *old, *new;
         unsigned long ip = rec->ip;
+        unsigned int old, new;
 
         /*
          * If the calling address is more that 24 bits away,
@@ -475,8 +468,8 @@ __ftrace_make_call(struct dyn_ftrace *rec, unsigned long addr)
 
 int ftrace_make_call(struct dyn_ftrace *rec, unsigned long addr)
 {
-        unsigned char *old, *new;
         unsigned long ip = rec->ip;
+        unsigned int old, new;
 
         /*
          * If the calling address is more that 24 bits away,
@@ -511,10 +504,10 @@ int ftrace_make_call(struct dyn_ftrace *rec, unsigned long addr)
 int ftrace_update_ftrace_func(ftrace_func_t func)
 {
         unsigned long ip = (unsigned long)(&ftrace_call);
-        unsigned char old[MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE], *new;
+        unsigned int old, new;
         int ret;
 
-        memcpy(old, &ftrace_call, MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE);
+        old = *(unsigned int *)&ftrace_call;
         new = ftrace_call_replace(ip, (unsigned long)func, 1);
         ret = ftrace_modify_code(ip, old, new);
 
@@ -543,10 +536,9 @@ int ftrace_enable_ftrace_graph_caller(void)
         unsigned long ip = (unsigned long)(&ftrace_graph_call);
         unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)(&ftrace_graph_caller);
         unsigned long stub = (unsigned long)(&ftrace_graph_stub);
-        unsigned char old[MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE], *new;
+        unsigned int old, new;
 
-        new = ftrace_call_replace(ip, stub, 0);
-        memcpy(old, new, MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE);
+        old = ftrace_call_replace(ip, stub, 0);
         new = ftrace_call_replace(ip, addr, 0);
 
         return ftrace_modify_code(ip, old, new);
@@ -557,10 +549,9 @@ int ftrace_disable_ftrace_graph_caller(void)
         unsigned long ip = (unsigned long)(&ftrace_graph_call);
         unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)(&ftrace_graph_caller);
         unsigned long stub = (unsigned long)(&ftrace_graph_stub);
-        unsigned char old[MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE], *new;
+        unsigned int old, new;
 
-        new = ftrace_call_replace(ip, addr, 0);
-        memcpy(old, new, MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE);
+        old = ftrace_call_replace(ip, addr, 0);
         new = ftrace_call_replace(ip, stub, 0);
 
         return ftrace_modify_code(ip, old, new);