Re: [PATCH] objtool: drop redundant flags generation

[Nicholas Mc Guire]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 11:25:37AM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 06:00:25PM +0100, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> > The generator was emitting quite a few duplicate flags which was making
> > doublebitand.cocci nervous. This awk hack resolves the duplicate issue.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > 
> > The coccinelle complaints emitted was about 230 findings total:
> > ./arch/x86/lib/inat-tables.c:214:10-20: duplicated argument to & or |
> > ./arch/x86/lib/inat-tables.c:214:23-33: duplicated argument to & or |
> > ./arch/x86/lib/inat-tables.c:218:10-20: duplicated argument to & or |
> > ./arch/x86/lib/inat-tables.c:218:23-33: duplicated argument to & or |
> > ....
> > ./tools/objtool/arch/x86/insn/inat-tables.c:214:10-20: duplicated argument to & or |
> > ./tools/objtool/arch/x86/insn/inat-tables.c:214:23-33: duplicated argument to & or |
> > ./tools/objtool/arch/x86/insn/inat-tables.c:218:10-20: duplicated argument to & or |
> > ./tools/objtool/arch/x86/insn/inat-tables.c:218:23-33: duplicated argument to & or |
> > ...
> > spatch --sp-file scripts/coccinelle/tests/doublebitand.cocci inat-tables.c -D report
> > will give you the full list - all are caused by duplicates in the generated
> > output by the add_flags function in the two instances of gen-insn-attr-x86.awk.
> > 
> > Q: The two copies of gen-insn-attr-x86.awk are identical and its not actually clear
> >    why this duplication is needed ? Further the maintainers list emitted for the
> >    two files differ.
> > 
> > Patch was checked by manual review of the diff between the initial file and the
> > regenerated file after the below patch was applied.
> > Second verification was by make tools/objtool and comparing the generated binaries
> > in tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.o with diff.
> > 
> > Patch is against 4.11-rc1 (localversion-next is next-20170306)
> > 
> >  arch/x86/tools/gen-insn-attr-x86.awk              | 12 ++++++++++--
> >  tools/objtool/arch/x86/insn/gen-insn-attr-x86.awk | 12 ++++++++++--
> 
> There's actually a third copy of the decoder in:
> 
>   tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/
> 
> Yes, the duplication is a pain, but it's part of an effort to keep
> 'tools/*' source independent from kernel code.
> 
> Maybe we can at least combine the objtool and perf versions someday.
>
Bad - missed that one - did not build perf - the generator seems to
be the same though only differing by a single blank line - so pulling 
those together should be a non-issue atleast with respect to the 
generator as the x86-opcode-map.txt are all the same ? ...or what 
fun am I missing ?

thx!
hofrat