Re: [PATCH v1 1/7] arm64: introduce basic aarch64 instruction decodinghelpers

From: Jiang Liu
Date: Wed Sep 25 2013 - 11:50:53 EST


On 09/25/2013 08:58 PM, Christopher Covington wrote:
> 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 for review, Chris!
I will try to improve the comments in next version.

>
> [...]
>
> Thanks,
> Christopher
>

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