[PATCH v5 3/6] arm64: Add framework for legacy instruction emulation

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Tue Nov 25 02:07:59 PST 2014


On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 08:58:33PM +0000, Greg Hackmann wrote:
> If it's not too late to chime in, I ran across one issue testing this patchset:
> 
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 3:41 AM, Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal at arm.com> wrote:
> > +       ret = update_insn_emulation_mode(insn, prev_mode);
> > +       if (!ret) {
> > +               /* Mode change failed, revert to previous mode. */
> > +               insn->current_mode = prev_mode;
> > +               update_insn_emulation_mode(insn, INSN_UNDEF);
> > +       }
> 
> update_insn_emulation_mode() returns 0 on success, so the condition
> needs to be "if (ret)".  Otherwise writes to the sysctl file are
> immediately rolled back.

Thanks Gene, I'll add that on top with your reported-by.

Will



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