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The only code which needs to check for an entire instruction group is the aarch64_insn_is_steppable() helper function used by kprobes, which must not be instrumented, and only needs to check for the "Branch, exception generation and system instructions" class. Currently we have an out-of-line helper in insn.c which must be marked as __kprobes, which indexes a table with some bits extracted from the instruction. In aarch64_insn_is_steppable() we then need to compare the result with an expected enum value. It would be simpler to have a predicate for this, as with the other aarch64_insn_is_*() helpers, which would be always inlined to prevent inadvertent instrumentation, and would permit better code generation. This patch adds a predicate function for this instruction group using the existing __AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS() helpers, and removes the existing out-of-line helper. As the only class we currently care about is the branch+exception+sys class, I have only added helpers for this, and left the other classes unimplemented for now. There should be no functional change as a result of this patch. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221114135928.3000571-4-mark.rutland@arm.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.