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From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] arm64: insn: Add tests for aarch64_insn_gen_logical_immediate()
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:55:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220215155525.GA8117@willie-the-truck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220127162127.2391947-3-james.morse@arm.com>

On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 04:21:26PM +0000, James Morse wrote:
> Aarch64 has instructions to generate reasonably complicated 32 or 64
> bit masks from only 13 bits of information.
> aarch64_insn_gen_logical_immediate() has to created the immediate
> encoding by spotting the patterns in the 32 or 64 bit immediate.
> 
> Despite attempts to validate or model this code, or use it as-is outside
> the kernel tree, bugs still exist.
> 
> Add a self test module that tests this code in place against a golden
> set of values.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug                   |  3 +
>  arch/arm64/Makefile                        |  2 +
>  arch/arm64/lib/Makefile                    |  2 +
>  arch/arm64/lib/insn.c                      |  3 +
>  arch/arm64/lib/test_insn.c                 | 90 ++++++++++++++++++++++

Can we put the new tests under tools/testing/selftests/arm64 as well,
please? It looks like there's precedence for having modules in there (e.g.
bpf_testmod.c).

In the meantime, I'll pick up patch 3.

Cheers,

Will

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-15 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-27 16:21 [PATCH 0/3] arm64: insn: Generate 64 bit mask immediates correctly James Morse
2022-01-27 16:21 ` [PATCH 1/3] arm64: selftests: Generate all the possible logical immediates as a header James Morse
2022-01-28  2:47   ` kernel test robot
2022-01-27 16:21 ` [PATCH 2/3] arm64: insn: Add tests for aarch64_insn_gen_logical_immediate() James Morse
2022-02-15 15:55   ` Will Deacon [this message]
2022-01-27 16:21 ` [PATCH 3/3] arm64: insn: Generate 64 bit mask immediates correctly James Morse
2022-01-27 18:34   ` Marc Zyngier
2022-02-15 23:18 ` [PATCH 0/3] " Will Deacon

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