linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 2/6] objtool: arm64: Add required implementation for supporting the aarch64 architecture in objtool.

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Date:   Tue, 9 Apr 2019 18:20:28 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Raphael Gault <raphael.gault@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        jpoimboe@...hat.com, catalin.marinas@....com, will.deacon@....com,
        julien.thierry@....com
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/6] objtool: arm64: Add required implementation for
 supporting the aarch64 architecture in objtool.

On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 02:52:39PM +0100, Raphael Gault wrote:

> The decoding of the instruction is split into classes and subclasses as described into
> the Instruction Encoding in the ArmV8.5 Architecture Reference Manual.

>  tools/objtool/arch/arm64/decode.c             | 2843 +++++++++++++++++

Oh man, I hope you generated much of that from the ARM64 Instruction Set
Architecture XML files [*]. Otherwise that's been a lot of typing.

Anyway, since you now have that, would it make sense to use this same
decoder in your kernel tree? I found at least one partial decoder in
arch/arm64/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c, but I suspect you have more.

(Note kprobes is how x86 initially grew its instruction decoder IIRC)


* https://developer.arm.com/architectures/cpu-architecture/a-profile/exploration-tools