Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Mar 2017 11:25:37 -0600 | From | Josh Poimboeuf <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] objtool: drop redundant flags generation |
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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 <der.herr@hofr.at> > --- > > 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.
-- Josh
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