Re: [PATCH 1/2] arm64: insn: remove BUG_ON from codegen

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 11:33:21PM -0800, Zi Shen Lim wrote:

During code generation, we used to BUG_ON unknown/unsupported encoding
or invalid parameters.

Instead, now we report these as errors and simply return the
instruction AARCH64_BREAK_FAULT. Users of these codegen helpers should
check for and handle this failure condition as appropriate.

Otherwise, unhandled codegen failure will result in trapping at
run-time due to AARCH64_BREAK_FAULT, which is arguably better than a
BUG_ON.

Signed-off-by: Zi Shen Lim <redacted>
Cc: Will Deacon <redacted>
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Per discussion here: http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg474179.html

Thanks, this looks good to me. Given that Rabin fixes the shift issue
in the core, I'm assuming this can wait until 4.6 and Catalin can queue
it after -rc1?

  Acked-by: Will Deacon [off-list ref]

Cheers,

Will