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From: Christopher Covington <cov@codeaurora.org>
To: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>, Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>,
	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/7] arm64: introduce basic aarch64 instruction decoding helpers
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 08:58:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5242DE0F.1080601@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1380105868-31985-2-git-send-email-liuj97@gmail.com>

Hi Jiang,

On 09/25/2013 06:44 AM, Jiang Liu wrote:

[...]

> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c

[...]

> +static int aarch64_insn_cls[] = {
> +	AARCH64_INSN_CLS_UNKNOWN,	/* 0 0 X X */
> +	AARCH64_INSN_CLS_UNKNOWN,	/* 0 0 X X */
> +	AARCH64_INSN_CLS_UNKNOWN,	/* 0 0 X X */
> +	AARCH64_INSN_CLS_UNKNOWN,	/* 0 0 X X */
> +	AARCH64_INSN_CLS_LDST,		/* X 1 X 0 */
> +	AARCH64_INSN_CLS_DP_REG,	/* X 1 0 1 */
> +	AARCH64_INSN_CLS_LDST,		/* X 1 X 0 */
> +	AARCH64_INSN_CLS_DP_FPSIMD,	/* 0 1 1 1 */
> +	AARCH64_INSN_CLS_DP_IMM,	/* 1 0 0 X */
> +	AARCH64_INSN_CLS_DP_IMM,	/* 1 0 0 X */
> +	AARCH64_INSN_CLS_BR_SYS,	/* 1 0 1 X */
> +	AARCH64_INSN_CLS_BR_SYS,	/* 1 0 1 X */
> +	AARCH64_INSN_CLS_LDST,		/* X 1 X 0 */
> +	AARCH64_INSN_CLS_DP_REG,	/* X 1 0 1 */
> +	AARCH64_INSN_CLS_LDST,		/* X 1 X 0 */
> +	AARCH64_INSN_CLS_DP_FPSIMD,	/* 1 1 1 1 */
> +};

As I read this, I was initially puzzled as to why there are duplicate entries
in the list. Since the data structure doesn't really support don't-cares,
perhaps it would be clearer to use 1's and 0's instead of X's.

[...]

Thanks,
Christopher

-- 
Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
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hosted by the Linux Foundation.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-25 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-25 10:44 [PATCH v1 0/7] Optimize jump label implementation on ARM64 Jiang Liu
2013-09-25 10:44 ` [PATCH v1 1/7] arm64: introduce basic aarch64 instruction decoding helpers Jiang Liu
2013-09-25 12:58   ` Christopher Covington [this message]
2013-09-25 15:50     ` Jiang Liu
2013-09-25 10:44 ` [PATCH v1 2/7] arm64: introduce interfaces to hotpatch kernel and module code Jiang Liu
2013-09-25 14:35   ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-25 14:42     ` Sandeepa Prabhu
2013-09-25 15:16       ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-26  2:47         ` Sandeepa Prabhu
2013-09-25 14:35   ` Sandeepa Prabhu
2013-09-25 15:54     ` Jiang Liu
2013-09-26  2:51       ` Sandeepa Prabhu
2013-09-27 15:41     ` Jiang Liu
2013-09-28  1:22       ` Sandeepa Prabhu
2013-09-25 10:44 ` [PATCH v1 3/7] arm64: move encode_insn_immediate() from module.c to insn.c Jiang Liu
2013-09-25 10:44 ` [PATCH v1 4/7] arm64: introduce aarch64_insn_gen_{nop|branch_imm}() helper functions Jiang Liu
2013-09-25 10:44 ` [PATCH v1 5/7] arm64, jump label: detect %c support for ARM64 Jiang Liu
2013-09-25 10:44 ` [PATCH v1 6/7] arm64, jump label: optimize jump label implementation Jiang Liu
2013-09-25 10:44 ` [PATCH v1 7/7] jump_label: use defined macros instead of hard-coding for better readability Jiang Liu
2013-09-25 14:53   ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-25 15:47     ` Jiang Liu
2013-09-25 16:30       ` Steven Rostedt

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