[PATCH v11 4/9] arm64: add conditional instruction simulation support
Pratyush Anand
panand at redhat.com
Sun Mar 13 21:04:55 PDT 2016
On 13/03/2016:12:09:03 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 00:32:18 -0500
> David Long <dave.long at linaro.org> wrote:
>
> > +pstate_check_t * const opcode_condition_checks[16] = {
> > + __check_eq, __check_ne, __check_cs, __check_cc,
> > + __check_mi, __check_pl, __check_vs, __check_vc,
> > + __check_hi, __check_ls, __check_ge, __check_lt,
> > + __check_gt, __check_le, __check_al, __check_al
>
> The very last entry seems wrong, or is at least the opposite of what
> the current code has. It should be something called __check_nv(), and
> always return false (condition code NEVER).
May be __check_nv() name is more appropriate as per definition, but shouldn't it
still return true, because TRM says:
"The condition code NV exists only to provide a valid disassembly of the 0b1111
encoding, otherwise its behavior is identical to AL"
~Pratyush
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