Re: [PATCH v5 09/21] powerpc: Use a datatype for instructions

2020-04-07 Thread Jordan Niethe
On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 8:30 PM Balamuruhan S wrote: > > On Mon, 2020-04-06 at 18:09 +1000, Jordan Niethe wrote: > > Currently unsigned ints are used to represent instructions on powerpc. > > This has worked well as instructions have always been 4 byte words. > > However, a future ISA version will

Re: [PATCH v5 09/21] powerpc: Use a datatype for instructions

2020-04-07 Thread Balamuruhan S
On Mon, 2020-04-06 at 18:09 +1000, Jordan Niethe wrote: > Currently unsigned ints are used to represent instructions on powerpc. > This has worked well as instructions have always been 4 byte words. > However, a future ISA version will introduce some changes to > instructions that mean this scheme

Re: [PATCH v5 09/21] powerpc: Use a datatype for instructions

2020-04-06 Thread kbuild test robot
Hi Jordan, Thank you for the patch! Yet something to improve: [auto build test ERROR on v5.6] [cannot apply to powerpc/next kvm-ppc/kvm-ppc-next scottwood/next next-20200406] [if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help improve the system. BTW, we also suggest

Re: [PATCH v5 09/21] powerpc: Use a datatype for instructions

2020-04-06 Thread kbuild test robot
Hi Jordan, Thank you for the patch! Yet something to improve: [auto build test ERROR on v5.6] [cannot apply to powerpc/next kvm-ppc/kvm-ppc-next scottwood/next next-20200406] [if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help improve the system. BTW, we also suggest

[PATCH v5 09/21] powerpc: Use a datatype for instructions

2020-04-06 Thread Jordan Niethe
Currently unsigned ints are used to represent instructions on powerpc. This has worked well as instructions have always been 4 byte words. However, a future ISA version will introduce some changes to instructions that mean this scheme will no longer work as well. This change is Prefixed