[PATCH v11 4/9] arm64: add conditional instruction simulation support
From: Marc Zyngier <hidden>
Date: 2016-03-14 07:38:31
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On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 09:34:55 +0530 Pratyush Anand [off-list ref] wrote: Hi Pratyush,
On 13/03/2016:12:09:03 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote:quoted
On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 00:32:18 -0500 David Long [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
+pstate_check_t * const opcode_condition_checks[16] = { + __check_eq, __check_ne, __check_cs, __check_cc, + __check_mi, __check_pl, __check_vs, __check_vc, + __check_hi, __check_ls, __check_ge, __check_lt, + __check_gt, __check_le, __check_al, __check_alThe very last entry seems wrong, or is at least the opposite of what the current code has. It should be something called __check_nv(), and always return false (condition code NEVER).May be __check_nv() name is more appropriate as per definition, but shouldn't it still return true, because TRM says: "The condition code NV exists only to provide a valid disassembly of the 0b1111 encoding, otherwise its behavior is identical to AL"
Indeed, I missed that. But this interpretation is for the A64 instruction set, and this array is also used by the new arm32_check_condition. The condition code table for A32 seems to completely ignore the 0b1111 code (there is simply no entry for it), and it is only in the ConditionHolds pseudocode that you can see how this is actually special-cased. So I'm fine leaving the code as it is, but a comment and a pointer to the ARMv8 ARM wouldn't go amiss. Thanks, M. -- Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny.