[PATCH v2 1/2] powerpc/sstep: Add emulation support for ‘setb’ instruction

Sathvika Vasireddy sathvika at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue May 11 22:18:32 AEST 2021


This adds emulation support for the following instruction:
   * Set Boolean (setb)

Signed-off-by: Sathvika Vasireddy <sathvika at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c b/arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c
index 45bda2520755..aee42bcc775b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c
@@ -1700,6 +1700,28 @@ int analyse_instr(struct instruction_op *op, const struct pt_regs *regs,
 			op->val = regs->ccr & imm;
 			goto compute_done;
 
+		case 128:	/* setb */
+			if (!cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ARCH_300))
+				goto unknown_opcode;
+			/*
+			 * 'ra' encodes the CR field number (bfa) in the top 3 bits.
+			 * Since each CR field is 4 bits,
+			 * we can simply mask off the bottom two bits (bfa * 4)
+			 * to yield the first bit in the CR field.
+			 */
+			ra = ra & ~0x3;
+			/* 'val' stores bits of the CR field (bfa) */
+			val = regs->ccr >> (CR0_SHIFT - ra);
+			/* checks if the LT bit of CR field (bfa) is set */
+			if (val & 8)
+				op->val = -1;
+			/* checks if the GT bit of CR field (bfa) is set */
+			else if (val & 4)
+				op->val = 1;
+			else
+				op->val = 0;
+			goto compute_done;
+
 		case 144:	/* mtcrf */
 			op->type = COMPUTE + SETCC;
 			imm = 0xf0000000UL;
-- 
2.16.4



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