Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932306AbdCFSsT (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2017 13:48:19 -0500 Received: from 92-243-34-74.adsl.nanet.at ([92.243.34.74]:43026 "EHLO mail.osadl.at" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932429AbdCFSsH (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2017 13:48:07 -0500 Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 17:54:01 +0000 From: Nicholas Mc Guire To: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , x86@kernel.org, Masami Hiramatsu , Adrian Hunter , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] objtool: drop redundant flags generation Message-ID: <20170306175401.GA26026@osadl.at> References: <1488819625-27395-1-git-send-email-der.herr@hofr.at> <20170306172537.uox2f7ru3x72jzea@treble> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170306172537.uox2f7ru3x72jzea@treble> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2653 Lines: 54 On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 11:25:37AM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 06:00:25PM +0100, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote: > > The generator was emitting quite a few duplicate flags which was making > > doublebitand.cocci nervous. This awk hack resolves the duplicate issue. > > > > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire > > --- > > > > The coccinelle complaints emitted was about 230 findings total: > > ./arch/x86/lib/inat-tables.c:214:10-20: duplicated argument to & or | > > ./arch/x86/lib/inat-tables.c:214:23-33: duplicated argument to & or | > > ./arch/x86/lib/inat-tables.c:218:10-20: duplicated argument to & or | > > ./arch/x86/lib/inat-tables.c:218:23-33: duplicated argument to & or | > > .... > > ./tools/objtool/arch/x86/insn/inat-tables.c:214:10-20: duplicated argument to & or | > > ./tools/objtool/arch/x86/insn/inat-tables.c:214:23-33: duplicated argument to & or | > > ./tools/objtool/arch/x86/insn/inat-tables.c:218:10-20: duplicated argument to & or | > > ./tools/objtool/arch/x86/insn/inat-tables.c:218:23-33: duplicated argument to & or | > > ... > > spatch --sp-file scripts/coccinelle/tests/doublebitand.cocci inat-tables.c -D report > > will give you the full list - all are caused by duplicates in the generated > > output by the add_flags function in the two instances of gen-insn-attr-x86.awk. > > > > Q: The two copies of gen-insn-attr-x86.awk are identical and its not actually clear > > why this duplication is needed ? Further the maintainers list emitted for the > > two files differ. > > > > Patch was checked by manual review of the diff between the initial file and the > > regenerated file after the below patch was applied. > > Second verification was by make tools/objtool and comparing the generated binaries > > in tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.o with diff. > > > > Patch is against 4.11-rc1 (localversion-next is next-20170306) > > > > arch/x86/tools/gen-insn-attr-x86.awk | 12 ++++++++++-- > > tools/objtool/arch/x86/insn/gen-insn-attr-x86.awk | 12 ++++++++++-- > > There's actually a third copy of the decoder in: > > tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/ > > Yes, the duplication is a pain, but it's part of an effort to keep > 'tools/*' source independent from kernel code. > > Maybe we can at least combine the objtool and perf versions someday. > Bad - missed that one - did not build perf - the generator seems to be the same though only differing by a single blank line - so pulling those together should be a non-issue atleast with respect to the generator as the x86-opcode-map.txt are all the same ? ...or what fun am I missing ? thx! hofrat