Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Nov 2020 14:33:10 +0100 | From | Vasily Gorbik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/insn: Fix vector instructions decoding on big endian |
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On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 11:30:52AM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 05:09:54PM +0100, Vasily Gorbik wrote: > > Running instruction decoder posttest on s390 with allyesconfig shows > > errors. Instructions used in couple of kernel objects could not be > > correctly decoded on big endian system. > > > > insn_decoder_test: warning: objdump says 6 bytes, but insn_get_length() says 5 > > insn_decoder_test: warning: Found an x86 instruction decoder bug, please report this. > > insn_decoder_test: warning: ffffffff831eb4e1: 62 d1 fd 48 7f 04 24 vmovdqa64 %zmm0,(%r12) > > insn_decoder_test: warning: objdump says 7 bytes, but insn_get_length() says 6 > > insn_decoder_test: warning: Found an x86 instruction decoder bug, please report this. > > insn_decoder_test: warning: ffffffff831eb4e8: 62 51 fd 48 7f 44 24 01 vmovdqa64 %zmm8,0x40(%r12) > > insn_decoder_test: warning: objdump says 8 bytes, but insn_get_length() says 6 > > > > This is because in few places instruction field bytes are set directly > > with further usage of "value". To address that introduce and use > > insn_set_byte() helper, which correctly updates "value" on big endian > > systems. > > > > Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> > > --- > > Please let me know if this patch is good as it is or I should squash it > > into the patch 2 of my patch series and resend it again. > > It all looks good to me, thanks! > > Masami, does this patch look good, and also patches 1-2 of the series? > (I think you previously ACKed patch 2). >
Friendly ping...
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