Re: [PATCH] x86: Fix kprobes build with non-gawk awk

From: Masami Hiramatsu
Date: Mon Dec 14 2009 - 09:17:42 EST


Hi Jonathan,

Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> The instruction attribute table generator fails when run by mawk
> or original-awk:
>
> $ mawk -f arch/x86/tools/gen-insn-attr-x86.awk \
> arch/x86/lib/x86-opcode-map.txt > /dev/null
> Semantic error at 240: Second IMM error
> $ echo $?
> 1
>
> Line 240 contains "c8: ENTER Iw,Ib", which indicates that this
> instruction has two immediate operands, the second of which is
> one byte. The script loops through the immediate operands using
> a for loop.
>
> Unfortunately, there is no guarantee in awk that a for (variable
> in array) loop will return the indices in increasing order.
> Internally, both original-awk and mawk iterate over a hash table
> for this purpose, and both implementations happen to produce the
> index 2 before 1. The supposed second immediate operand is more
> than one byte wide, producing the error.

Oh, I see.

>
> So loop over the indices in increasing order instead. As a
> side-effect, with mawk this means the silly two-entry hash table
> never has to be built.

Thank you for fixing it!

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>

>
> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/tools/gen-insn-attr-x86.awk | 10 +++++-----
> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/tools/gen-insn-attr-x86.awk b/arch/x86/tools/gen-insn-attr-x86.awk
> index e34e92a..7a68506 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/tools/gen-insn-attr-x86.awk
> +++ b/arch/x86/tools/gen-insn-attr-x86.awk
> @@ -226,12 +226,12 @@ function add_flags(old,new) {
> }
>
> # convert operands to flags.
> -function convert_operands(opnd, i,imm,mod)
> +function convert_operands(count,opnd, i,j,imm,mod)
> {
> imm = null
> mod = null
> - for (i in opnd) {
> - i = opnd[i]
> + for (j = 1; j <= count; j++) {
> + i = opnd[j]
> if (match(i, imm_expr) == 1) {
> if (!imm_flag[i])
> semantic_error("Unknown imm opnd: " i)
> @@ -282,8 +282,8 @@ function convert_operands(opnd, i,imm,mod)
> # parse one opcode
> if (match($i, opnd_expr)) {
> opnd = $i
> - split($(i++), opnds, ",")
> - flags = convert_operands(opnds)
> + count = split($(i++), opnds, ",")
> + flags = convert_operands(count, opnds)
> }
> if (match($i, ext_expr))
> ext = $(i++)

--
Masami Hiramatsu

Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.
Software Solutions Division

e-mail: mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx

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