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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 1/5] perf cs-etm: Refactor instruction size handling
Hi Suzuki,

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 05:51:04PM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> Hi Leo,
>
> On 23/09/2019 17:07, Leo Yan wrote:
> > In cs-etm.c there have several functions need to know instruction size
> > based on address, e.g. cs_etm__instr_addr() and cs_etm__copy_insn()
> > these two functions both calculate the instruction size separately.
> > Furthermore, if we consider to add new features later which also might
> > require to calculate instruction size.
> >
> > For this reason, this patch refactors the code to introduce a new
> > function cs_etm__instr_size(), it will be a central place to calculate
> > the instruction size based on ISA type and instruction address.
> >
> > For a neat implementation, cs_etm__instr_addr() will always execute the
> > loop without checking ISA type, this allows cs_etm__instr_size() and
> > cs_etm__instr_addr() have no any duplicate code with each other and both
> > functions can be changed independently later without breaking anything.
> > As a side effect, cs_etm__instr_addr() will do a few more iterations for
> > A32/A64 instructions, this would be fine if consider perf tool runs in
> > the user space.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
>
> Your changes look fine to me. However, please see my comment below.
>
> > ---
> > tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
> > 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c b/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
> > index f87b9c1c9f9a..1de3f9361193 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
> > @@ -917,6 +917,26 @@ static inline int cs_etm__t32_instr_size(struct cs_etm_queue *etmq,
> > return ((instrBytes[1] & 0xF8) >= 0xE8) ? 4 : 2;
> > }
> > +static inline int cs_etm__instr_size(struct cs_etm_queue *etmq,
> > + u8 trace_chan_id,
> > + enum cs_etm_isa isa,
> > + u64 addr)
> > +{
> > + int insn_len;
> > +
> > + /*
> > + * T32 instruction size might be 32-bit or 16-bit, decide by calling
> > + * cs_etm__t32_instr_size().
> > + */
> > + if (isa == CS_ETM_ISA_T32)
> > + insn_len = cs_etm__t32_instr_size(etmq, trace_chan_id, addr);
> > + /* Otherwise, A64 and A32 instruction size are always 32-bit. */
> > + else
> > + insn_len = 4;
> > +
> > + return insn_len;
> > +}
> > +
> > static inline u64 cs_etm__first_executed_instr(struct cs_etm_packet *packet)
> > {
> > /* Returns 0 for the CS_ETM_DISCONTINUITY packet */
> > @@ -941,19 +961,15 @@ static inline u64 cs_etm__instr_addr(struct cs_etm_queue *etmq,
> > const struct cs_etm_packet *packet,
> > u64 offset)
> > {
> > - if (packet->isa == CS_ETM_ISA_T32) {
> > - u64 addr = packet->start_addr;
> > + u64 addr = packet->start_addr;
> > - while (offset > 0) {
> > - addr += cs_etm__t32_instr_size(etmq,
> > - trace_chan_id, addr);
> > - offset--;
> > - }
> > - return addr;
> > + while (offset > 0) {
>
> Given that offset is u64, the check above is not appropriate. You could either
> change it to :
> while (offset) // if you are sure (s64)offset always is a postive
> integer and we always reduce it by 1.
>
> Otherwise you may switch the offset to a signed type. I understand that this
> is not introduced by your changes. But you may fix that up in a separate patch.

Thanks a lot for the review. Seems to me the reliable fix is to change
to a signed type. Will add this fix in next spin.

Thanks,
Leo Yan

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