Re: [tip: objtool/core] objtool: Function to get the name of a CPU feature

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 10:44:01AM -0000, tip-bot2 for Alexandre Chartre wrote:
> The following commit has been merged into the objtool/core branch of tip:
> 
> Commit-ID:     afff4e5820e9a0d609740a83c366f3f0335db342
> Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/afff4e5820e9a0d609740a83c366f3f0335db342
> Author:        Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
> AuthorDate:    Fri, 21 Nov 2025 10:53:36 +01:00
> Committer:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> CommitterDate: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:35:06 +01:00
> 
> objtool: Function to get the name of a CPU feature
> 
> Add a function to get the name of a CPU feature. The function is
> architecture dependent and currently only implemented for x86. The
> feature names are automatically generated from the cpufeatures.h
> include file.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251121095340.464045-27-alexandre.chartre@oracle.com
> ---
>  tools/arch/x86/tools/gen-cpu-feature-names-x86.awk | 33 +++++++++++++-
>  tools/objtool/.gitignore                           |  1 +-
>  tools/objtool/Makefile                             |  1 +-
>  tools/objtool/arch/loongarch/special.c             |  5 ++-
>  tools/objtool/arch/powerpc/special.c               |  5 ++-
>  tools/objtool/arch/x86/Build                       | 13 ++++-
>  tools/objtool/arch/x86/special.c                   | 10 ++++-
>  tools/objtool/include/objtool/special.h            |  2 +-
>  8 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 tools/arch/x86/tools/gen-cpu-feature-names-x86.awk
> 
> diff --git a/tools/arch/x86/tools/gen-cpu-feature-names-x86.awk b/tools/arch/x86/tools/gen-cpu-feature-names-x86.awk
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..1b1c1d8
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/arch/x86/tools/gen-cpu-feature-names-x86.awk
> @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
> +#!/bin/awk -f
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +#
> +# Copyright (c) 2025, Oracle and/or its affiliates.
> +#
> +# Usage: awk -f gen-cpu-feature-names-x86.awk cpufeatures.h > cpu-feature-names.c
> +#
> +
> +BEGIN {
> +	print "/* cpu feature name array generated from cpufeatures.h */"
> +	print "/* Do not change this code. */"
> +	print
> +	print "static const char *cpu_feature_names[(NCAPINTS+NBUGINTS)*32] = {"
> +
> +	feature_expr = "(X86_FEATURE_[A-Z0-9_]+)\\s+\\(([0-9*+ ]+)\\)"
> +	debug_expr = "(X86_BUG_[A-Z0-9_]+)\\s+X86_BUG\\(([0-9*+ ]+)\\)"
> +}
> +
> +/^#define X86_FEATURE_/ {
> +	if (match($0, feature_expr, m)) {
> +		print "\t[" m[2] "] = \"" m[1] "\","
> +	}
> +}
> +
> +/^#define X86_BUG_/ {
> +	if (match($0, debug_expr, m)) {
> +		print "\t[NCAPINTS*32+(" m[2] ")] = \"" m[1] "\","
> +	}
> +}
> +
> +END {
> +	print "};"
> +}

Boris just reported that this doesn't work on mawk, since it uses a GNU
awk extension (3rd argument for match()).

Could you please look at writing this in strict POSIX awk?