[PATCH v3 6/9] arm64: Add helper to decode register from instruction

Suzuki K Poulose suzuki.poulose at arm.com
Wed Jan 4 09:49:04 PST 2017


Add a helper to extract the register field from a given
instruction.

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h |  2 ++
 arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c      | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h
index bc85366..aecc07e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h
@@ -332,6 +332,8 @@ bool aarch64_insn_is_branch(u32 insn);
 u64 aarch64_insn_decode_immediate(enum aarch64_insn_imm_type type, u32 insn);
 u32 aarch64_insn_encode_immediate(enum aarch64_insn_imm_type type,
 				  u32 insn, u64 imm);
+u32 aarch64_insn_decode_register(enum aarch64_insn_register_type type,
+					 u32 insn);
 u32 aarch64_insn_gen_branch_imm(unsigned long pc, unsigned long addr,
 				enum aarch64_insn_branch_type type);
 u32 aarch64_insn_gen_comp_branch_imm(unsigned long pc, unsigned long addr,
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c
index 94b62c1..1f44cf8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c
@@ -417,6 +417,35 @@ u32 __kprobes aarch64_insn_encode_immediate(enum aarch64_insn_imm_type type,
 	return insn;
 }
 
+u32 aarch64_insn_decode_register(enum aarch64_insn_register_type type,
+					u32 insn)
+{
+	int shift;
+
+	switch (type) {
+	case AARCH64_INSN_REGTYPE_RT:
+	case AARCH64_INSN_REGTYPE_RD:
+		shift = 0;
+		break;
+	case AARCH64_INSN_REGTYPE_RN:
+		shift = 5;
+		break;
+	case AARCH64_INSN_REGTYPE_RT2:
+	case AARCH64_INSN_REGTYPE_RA:
+		shift = 10;
+		break;
+	case AARCH64_INSN_REGTYPE_RM:
+		shift = 16;
+		break;
+	default:
+		pr_err("%s: unknown register type encoding %d\n", __func__,
+		       type);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+	return (insn >> shift) & GENMASK(4, 0);
+}
+
 static u32 aarch64_insn_encode_register(enum aarch64_insn_register_type type,
 					u32 insn,
 					enum aarch64_insn_register reg)
-- 
2.7.4




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