[PATCH 0/6] consolidate PowerPC instruction encoding macros

Balamuruhan S bala24 at linux.ibm.com
Tue May 26 18:15:17 AEST 2020


ppc-opcode.h have base instruction encoding wrapped with stringify_in_c()
for raw encoding to have compatibility. But there are redundant macros for
base instruction encodings in bpf, instruction emulation test infrastructure
and powerpc selftests.

Currently PPC_INST_* macros are used for encoding instruction opcode and PPC_*
for raw instuction encoding, this rfc patchset introduces PPC_RAW_* macros for
base instruction encoding and reuse it from elsewhere. With this change we can
avoid redundant macro definitions in multiple files and start adding new
instructions in ppc-opcode.h in future.

Changes in v1:
-------------
* Drop the patch that had changes in stringloops Makefile.
* Include Acked-by and Tested-by tag from Naveen.
* Rebased on next branch of linuxppc tree.

Changes in rfc v2:
-----------------
Fix review comments/suggestions from Naveen and Michael Ellerman,

* Rename PPC_ENCODE_* to PPC_RAW_* for base instruction encoding macros.
* Split the patches that does mass renaming and make them simpler that just
  adds new macros.
* Keep the patch to update all the existing names later (patch 6).
* Lot of PPC_INST_* macros are used only in ppc-opcode.h for PPC_*  macros,
  fold PPC_INST_* encoding into PPC_RAW_* to avoid using them accidentally.
* Fixed clipped macros that was due to a typo/copy-paste
* Consolidated all the instruction encoding macros from bpf_jit.h to
  ppc-opcode.h
* squashed patch that removes the duplicate macro PPC_MR() in bpf_jit.h
* merge few changes in bpf_jit files from patch 2 into patch 3
* few fixes in powerpc selftest stringloops Makefile
* build tested for ppc64le_defconfig, ppc64e_defconfig and pmac32_defconfig
* Rebased on next branch of linuxppc tree

Testing:
-------
* Tested it by compiling vmlinux and comparing objdump of it with and without
  the patchset and observed that it remains same,

  # diff vmlinux_objdump vmlinux_rfc_objdump 
  2c2
  < vmlinux:     file format elf64-powerpcle
  ---
  > vmlinux_rfc:     file format elf64-powerpcle

* Tested building it with this changes for Fedora30 config, booted VM
  with powerpc next and powerpc next + patchset to run powerpc selftest and
  ftrace selftest. There were couple of failures that were common and
  patchset did not introduce any new failures.

  ftrace selftest:
  ---------------
        # # of passed:  96
        # # of failed:  1
        # # of unresolved:  7
        # # of untested:  0
        # # of unsupported:  1
        # # of xfailed:  1
        # # of undefined(test bug):  0
        not ok 1 selftests: ftrace: ftracetest # exit=1

  powerpc selftest:
  ----------------
        not ok 7 selftests: powerpc/dscr: dscr_sysfs_thread_test # exit=1
        not ok 20 selftests: powerpc/pmu/ebb: lost_exception_test # TIMEOUT
        not ok 2 selftests: powerpc/security: spectre_v2 # exit=1

Thanks to Naveen, Sandipan and Michael on overall suggestions/improvements.

I would request for review and suggestions to make it better.

rfc v2: https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2020-April/209395.html
rfc v1: https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2020-March/206494.html

Balamuruhan S (6):
  powerpc/ppc-opcode: introduce PPC_RAW_* macros for base instruction
    encoding
  powerpc/ppc-opcode: move ppc instruction encoding from
    test_emulate_step
  powerpc/bpf_jit: reuse instruction macros from ppc-opcode.h
  powerpc/ppc-opcode: consolidate powerpc instructions from bpf_jit.h
  powerpc/ppc-opcode: reuse raw instruction macros to stringify
  powerpc/ppc-opcode: fold PPC_INST_* macros into PPC_RAW_* macros

 arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc-opcode.h | 706 +++++++++++++++-----------
 arch/powerpc/lib/test_emulate_step.c  | 155 ++----
 arch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit.h            | 184 +------
 arch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit32.h          |  34 +-
 arch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit64.h          |  16 +-
 arch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit_comp.c       | 134 ++---
 arch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit_comp64.c     | 298 +++++------
 7 files changed, 733 insertions(+), 794 deletions(-)


base-commit: 30df74d67d48949da87e3a5b57c381763e8fd526
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2.24.1



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