Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:42:05 -0400 | From | Masami Hiramatsu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -tip v14 01/12] x86: instruction decoder API |
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Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 04:34:13PM -0400, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: >> Add x86 instruction decoder to arch-specific libraries. This decoder >> can decode x86 instructions used in kernel into prefix, opcode, modrm, >> sib, displacement and immediates. This can also show the length of >> instructions. >> >> This version introduces instruction attributes for decoding instructions. >> The instruction attribute tables are generated from the opcode map file >> (x86-opcode-map.txt) by the generator script(gen-insn-attr-x86.awk). >> >> Currently, the opcode maps are based on opcode maps in Intel(R) 64 and >> IA-32 Architectures Software Developers Manual Vol.2: Appendix.A, >> and consist of below two types of opcode tables. >> >> 1-byte/2-bytes/3-bytes opcodes, which has 256 elements, are >> written as below; >> >> Table: table-name >> Referrer: escaped-name >> opcode: mnemonic|GrpXXX [operand1[,operand2...]] [(extra1)[,(extra2)...] [| 2nd-mnemonic ...] >> (or) >> opcode: escape # escaped-name >> EndTable >> >> Group opcodes, which has 8 elements, are written as below; >> >> GrpTable: GrpXXX >> reg: mnemonic [operand1[,operand2...]] [(extra1)[,(extra2)...] [| 2nd-mnemonic ...] >> EndTable >> >> These opcode maps include a few SSE and FP opcodes (for setup), because >> those opcodes are used in the kernel. >> > > > I'm getting the following build error on an old K7 box: > > arch/x86/lib/inat.c: In function ‘inat_get_opcode_attribute’: > arch/x86/lib/inat.c:29: erreur: ‘inat_primary_table’ undeclared (first use in this function) > arch/x86/lib/inat.c:29: erreur: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once > arch/x86/lib/inat.c:29: erreur: for each function it appears in.)
Thanks for reporting! Hmm, it seems that inat-tables.c is not correctly generated. Could you tell me which awk you used and send the inat-tables.c?
Thank you,
-- Masami Hiramatsu
Software Engineer Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc. Software Solutions Division
e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com
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