tree 432adb93e8abf8979a63a0aaa1aa36b3b9cf9a4e
parent 4578f06fc93fb73c9c644ed838f4cdabbfdc4df1
author Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com> 1509135936 -0700
committer Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 1509569410 +0100

x86/mpx, x86/insn: Relocate insn util functions to a new insn-eval file

Other kernel submodules can benefit from using the utility functions
defined in mpx.c to obtain the addresses and values of operands contained
in the general purpose registers. An instance of this is the emulation code
used for instructions protected by the Intel User-Mode Instruction
Prevention feature.

Thus, these functions are relocated to a new insn-eval.c file. The reason
to not relocate these utilities into insn.c is that the latter solely
analyses instructions given by a struct insn without any knowledge of the
meaning of the values of instruction operands. This new utility insn-
eval.c aims to be used to resolve userspace linear addresses based on
the contents of the instruction operands as well as the contents of pt_regs
structure.

These utilities come with a separate header. This is to avoid taking insn.c
out of sync from the instructions decoders under tools/obj and tools/perf.
This also avoids adding cumbersome #ifdef's for the #include'd files
required to decode instructions in a kernel context.

Functions are simply relocated. There are not functional or indentation
changes.

Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: ricardo.neri@intel.com
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>
Cc: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: "Ravi V. Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com>
Cc: Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509135945-13762-10-git-send-email-ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com