linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] arm64: move encode_insn

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Message-ID: <525EBFE1.2060103@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 17 Oct 2013 00:33:37 +0800
From:	Jiang Liu <liuj97@...il.com>
To:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
CC:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@....com>,
	Sandeepa Prabhu <sandeepa.prabhu@...aro.org>,
	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] arm64: move encode_insn_immediate() from module.c
 to insn.c

On 10/16/2013 07:22 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 04:18:08AM +0100, Jiang Liu wrote:
>> From: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>
>>
>> Function encode_insn_immediate() will be used by other instruction
>> manipulate related functions, so move it into insn.c and rename it
>> as aarch64_insn_encode_immediate().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>
>> Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@...il.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h |  14 ++++
>>  arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c      |  77 +++++++++++++++++++++
>>  arch/arm64/kernel/module.c    | 151 +++++++++---------------------------------
>>  3 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 119 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h
>> index 2dfcdb4..8dc0a91 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h
>> @@ -28,6 +28,18 @@ enum aarch64_insn_class {
>>                                          * system instructions */
>>  };
>>
>> +enum aarch64_insn_imm_type {
>> +       AARCH64_INSN_IMM_MOVNZ,
>> +       AARCH64_INSN_IMM_MOVK,
>> +       AARCH64_INSN_IMM_ADR,
>> +       AARCH64_INSN_IMM_26,
>> +       AARCH64_INSN_IMM_19,
>> +       AARCH64_INSN_IMM_16,
>> +       AARCH64_INSN_IMM_14,
>> +       AARCH64_INSN_IMM_12,
>> +       AARCH64_INSN_IMM_9,
>> +};
>> +
>>  #define        __AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS(abbr, mask, val)   \
>>  static __always_inline bool aarch64_insn_is_##abbr(u32 code) \
>>  { return (code & (mask)) == (val); }   \
>> @@ -47,6 +59,8 @@ __AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS(nop,     0xFFFFFFFF, 0xD503201F)
>>  #undef __AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS
>>
>>  enum aarch64_insn_class aarch64_get_insn_class(u32 insn);
>> +u32 aarch64_insn_encode_immediate(enum aarch64_insn_imm_type type,
>> +                                 u32 insn, u64 imm);
>>  u32 aarch64_insn_read(void *addr);
>>  void aarch64_insn_write(void *addr, u32 insn);
>>  bool aarch64_insn_hotpatch_safe(u32 old_insn, u32 new_insn);
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c
>> index ad4185f..90cc312 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c
>> @@ -179,3 +179,80 @@ int __kprobes aarch64_insn_patch_text(void *addrs[], u32 insns[], int cnt)
>>         else
>>                 return aarch64_insn_patch_text_sync(addrs, insns, cnt);
>>  }
>> +
>> +u32 aarch64_insn_encode_immediate(enum aarch64_insn_imm_type type,
>> +                                 u32 insn, u64 imm)
>> +{
>> +       u32 immlo, immhi, lomask, himask, mask;
>> +       int shift;
>> +
>> +       switch (type) {
>> +       case AARCH64_INSN_IMM_MOVNZ:
>> +               /*
>> +                * For signed MOVW relocations, we have to manipulate the
>> +                * instruction encoding depending on whether or not the
>> +                * immediate is less than zero.
>> +                */
>> +               insn &= ~(3 << 29);
>> +               if ((s64)imm >= 0) {
>> +                       /* >=0: Set the instruction to MOVZ (opcode 10b). */
>> +                       insn |= 2 << 29;
>> +               } else {
>> +                       /*
>> +                        * <0: Set the instruction to MOVN (opcode 00b).
>> +                        *     Since we've masked the opcode already, we
>> +                        *     don't need to do anything other than
>> +                        *     inverting the new immediate field.
>> +                        */
>> +                       imm = ~imm;
>> +               }
> 
> I'm really not comfortable with this. This code is performing static
> relocations and re-encoding instructions as required by the AArch64 ELF
> spec. That's not really what you'd expect from a generic instruction
> encoder!
Thanks for reminder, will move above code back into module.c.
Thanks!
Gerry

> 
> Will
> 

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