Re: [PATCH] scripts/decodecode: Fix decoding for AArch64 (arm64) instructions

[Will Deacon]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 01:42:31PM +0100, Dave Martin wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 11:55:47AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > There are a couple of problems with the decodecode script and arm64:
> > 
> > 1. AArch64 objdump refuses to disassemble .4byte directives as instructions,
> >    insisting that they are data values and displaying them as:
> > 
> > 	a94153f3	.word	0xa94153f3		<-- trapping instruction
> > 
> >    This is resolved by using the .inst directive instead.
> > 
> > 2. Disassembly of branch instructions attempts to provide the target as
> >    an offset from a symbol, e.g.:
> > 
> >    0:	34000082	cbz	w2, 10 <.text+0x10>
> > 
> >   however this falls foul of the grep -v, which matches lines containing
> >   ".text" and ends up removing all branch instructions from the dump.
> 
> Any idea why this doesn't affect other arches too ... or does it?

I'm not sure, although I don't know how .inst works for architectures
with variable-length instructions and I *guess* the disassembly is less
fussy about data vs text for those targets.

> > This patch resolves both issues by using the .inst directive for 4-byte
> > quantities on arm64 and stripping the resulting binaries (as is done on
> > arm already) to remove the mapping symbols.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> > 
> > ---
> >  scripts/decodecode | 8 ++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/scripts/decodecode b/scripts/decodecode
> > index d8824f37acce..67214ec5b2cb 100755
> > --- a/scripts/decodecode
> > +++ b/scripts/decodecode
> > @@ -58,6 +58,14 @@ disas() {
> >  		${CROSS_COMPILE}strip $1.o
> >  	fi
> >  
> > +	if [ "$ARCH" = "arm64" ]; then
> > +		if [ $width -eq 4 ]; then
> > +			type=inst
> 
> Can we merge with arm here, or does arm still support toolchains that
> don't have .inst?  Anyway, no big deal.

I thought we still supported those, so I'd be reluctant to merge the
clauses unless it's broken (the script works as-is for me with arm). I'm
also not sure what we should do for 16-bit Thumb-2 encodings, where we
have inst.n and inst.w to contend with.

> > +		fi
> > +
> > +		${CROSS_COMPILE}strip $1.o
> > +	fi
> > +
> >  	${CROSS_COMPILE}objdump $OBJDUMPFLAGS -S $1.o | \
> >  		grep -v "/tmp\|Disassembly\|\.text\|^$" > $1.dis 2>&1
> 
> FWIW,
> 
> Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx>

Thanks!

Will