Re: [PATCH 01/22] ARM: add mechanism for late code patching

[Cyril Chemparathy]

On 08/08/12 01:56, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
On Tue, 7 Aug 2012, Cyril Chemparathy wrote:
[...]
u32 arm_check[] = {
        0xe2810041, 0xe2810082, 0xe2810f41, 0xe2810f82, 0xe2810e41,
        0xe2810e82, 0xe2810d41, 0xe2810d82, 0xe2810c41, 0xe2810c82,
        0xe2810b41, 0xe2810b82, 0xe2810a41, 0xe2810a82, 0xe2810941,
        0xe2810982, 0xe2810841, 0xe2810882, 0xe2810741, 0xe2810782,
        0xe2810641, 0xe2810682, 0xe2810541, 0xe2810582, 0xe2810441,
};

Instead of using this array you could let the assembler do it for you
like this:

asm (" \n\
        .arm \n\
arm_check: \n\
         .set shft, 0 \n\
         .rep 12 \n\
         add     r1, r2, #0x81 << \shft \n\
         .set shft, \shft + 2 \n\
         .endr \n\
");


Neat macro magic.  Are you thinking that we build this in as a self test 
in the code?

Thanks
-- Cyril.
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