linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/10][v6] powerpc/Power7: detect load/store instructions

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Date:	Wed, 16 Oct 2013 08:27:42 -0700
From:	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>
Cc:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	Michael Ellerman <michaele@....ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Anshuman Khandual <khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10][v6] powerpc/Power7: detect load/store instructions

David Laight [David.Laight@...lab.com] wrote:
| 
| I can't help feeling the code could do with some comments about
| which actual instructions are selected where.

At a high level, only the load and store instructions are selected.

I added a reference to the Appendix F (Opcode maps) in the function
header.  The opcode maps is a table of upper x lower values. From
that table it should be fairly straightforward which instructions
are selected.

How about I add this to the function header ?

 * Please use the table in Appendix F (opcode maps) to determine
 * events selected by this function.

There are over 100 instructions selected by this list and wasn't
sure if we should list them all.

Sukadev

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