[RFC PATCH 3/5] arm64: aarch64-insn: Add barrier encodings

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Tue Feb 2 06:15:12 EST 2021


On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 06:17:43PM +0100, Julien Thierry wrote:
> Create necessary functions to encode/decode aarch64 data/instruction
> barriers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry <jthierry at redhat.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/aarch64-insn.h | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/aarch64-insn.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/aarch64-insn.h
> index 200bee726172..d0fee47bbe6e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/aarch64-insn.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/aarch64-insn.h
> @@ -379,6 +379,9 @@ __AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS(eret_auth,	0xFFFFFBFF, 0xD69F0BFF)
>  __AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS(mrs,	0xFFF00000, 0xD5300000)
>  __AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS(msr_imm,	0xFFF8F01F, 0xD500401F)
>  __AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS(msr_reg,	0xFFF00000, 0xD5100000)
> +__AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS(dmb,	0xFFFFF0FF, 0xD50330BF)
> +__AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS(dsb,	0xFFFFF0FF, 0xD503309F)
> +__AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS(isb,	0xFFFFF0FF, 0xD50330DF)

These match the encodings in ARM DDI 0487G.a, with a couple of caveats
for DSB.

Per section C6.2.82 on page C6-1000, when CRm != 0x00, the instruction
isn't considered a DSB. I believe per the "barriers" decode table on
page C4-289 that here "0x00" is actually a binary string and 'x' is a
"don't care" -- I've raised a ticket to get the documentation clarified.
I suspect we need to write a function to handle that.

There's also a secondary encoding for DSB with FEAT_XS, which we don't
currently use but might want to add.

>  #undef	__AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS
>  
> @@ -390,6 +393,12 @@ static inline bool aarch64_insn_is_adr_adrp(u32 insn)
>  	return aarch64_insn_is_adr(insn) || aarch64_insn_is_adrp(insn);
>  }
>  
> +static inline bool aarch64_insn_is_barrier(u32 insn)
> +{
> +	return aarch64_insn_is_dmb(insn) || aarch64_insn_is_dsb(insn) ||
> +	       aarch64_insn_is_isb(insn);
> +}

I assume this is meant to match the barriers instruction class, as per
the table on page C4-289? That also contains CLREX, SB, SSBB, and PSSBB,
and it might be worth adding them at the same time.

Thanks,
Mark.

>  enum aarch64_insn_encoding_class aarch64_get_insn_class(u32 insn);
>  bool aarch64_insn_uses_literal(u32 insn);
>  bool aarch64_insn_is_branch(u32 insn);
> -- 
> 2.25.4
> 



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