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Date:	Wed, 25 Sep 2013 08:58:55 -0400
From:	Christopher Covington <cov@...eaurora.org>
To:	Jiang Liu <liuj97@...il.com>, Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>
CC:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>,
	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/7] arm64: introduce basic aarch64 instruction decoding
 helpers

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

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