[PATCH v2] powerpc/lib/sstep: Fix count leading zeros instructions

Naveen N. Rao naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Oct 10 17:54:59 AEDT 2017


On 2017/10/10 06:45AM, Sandipan Das wrote:
> According to the GCC documentation, the behaviour of __builtin_clz()
> and __builtin_clzl() is undefined if the value of the input argument
> is zero. Without handling this special case, these builtins have been
> used for emulating the following instructions:
>   * Count Leading Zeros Word (cntlzw[.])
>   * Count Leading Zeros Doubleword (cntlzd[.])
> 
> This fixes the emulated behaviour of these instructions by adding an
> additional check for this special case.
> 
> Fixes: 3cdfcbfd32b9d ("powerpc: Change analyse_instr so it doesn't modify *regs")
> Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Reviewed-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

> ---
> v2: Make zero-checking condition more compact.
>     Add details of original commit that is being fixed here.
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c b/arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c
> index 5118110c3983..8c3955e183d4 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c
> @@ -1699,11 +1699,13 @@ int analyse_instr(struct instruction_op *op, const struct pt_regs *regs,
>   * Logical instructions
>   */
>  		case 26:	/* cntlzw */
> -			op->val = __builtin_clz((unsigned int) regs->gpr[rd]);
> +			val = (unsigned int) regs->gpr[rd];
> +			op->val = ( val ? __builtin_clz(val) : 32 );
>  			goto logical_done;
>  #ifdef __powerpc64__
>  		case 58:	/* cntlzd */
> -			op->val = __builtin_clzl(regs->gpr[rd]);
> +			val = regs->gpr[rd];
> +			op->val = ( val ? __builtin_clzl(val) : 64 );
>  			goto logical_done;
>  #endif
>  		case 28:	/* and */
> -- 
> 2.13.6
> 



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