Re: [PATCH] x86/tools: objdump_reformat.awk: Skip bad instructions from llvm-objdump

[Nathan Chancellor]

Ping? I am still seeing this issue.

On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 12:53:08PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> When running the instruction decoder selftest with LLVM=1 +
> CONFIG_PVH=y, there is a series of warnings:
> 
>   arch/x86/tools/insn_decoder_test: warning: Found an x86 instruction decoder bug, please report this.
>   arch/x86/tools/insn_decoder_test: warning: ffffffff81000050     ea                      <unknown>
>   arch/x86/tools/insn_decoder_test: warning: objdump says 1 bytes, but insn_get_length() says 7
>   arch/x86/tools/insn_decoder_test: warning: Decoded and checked 7214721 instructions with 1 failures
> 
> GNU objdump outputs "(bad)" instead of "<unknown>", which is already
> handled in the bad_expr regex, so there is no warning.
> 
>   $ objdump -d arch/x86/platform/pvh/head.o | grep -E '50:\s+ea'
>   50:   ea                      (bad)
> 
>   $ llvm-objdump -d arch/x86/platform/pvh/head.o | grep -E '50:\s+ea'
>         50: ea                            <unknown>
> 
> Add "<unknown>" to the bad_expr regex to clear up the warning, allowing
> the instruction decoder selftest to fully pass with llvm-objdump.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/tools/objdump_reformat.awk | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/tools/objdump_reformat.awk b/arch/x86/tools/objdump_reformat.awk
> index a4120d907277..20b08a6c4d33 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/tools/objdump_reformat.awk
> +++ b/arch/x86/tools/objdump_reformat.awk
> @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ BEGIN {
>  	prev_addr = ""
>  	prev_hex = ""
>  	prev_mnemonic = ""
> -	bad_expr = "(\\(bad\\)|^rex|^.byte|^rep(z|nz)$|^lock$|^es$|^cs$|^ss$|^ds$|^fs$|^gs$|^data(16|32)$|^addr(16|32|64))"
> +	bad_expr = "(\\(bad\\)|<unknown>|^rex|^.byte|^rep(z|nz)$|^lock$|^es$|^cs$|^ss$|^ds$|^fs$|^gs$|^data(16|32)$|^addr(16|32|64))"
>  	fwait_expr = "^9b[ \t]*fwait"
>  	fwait_str="9b\tfwait"
>  }
> 
> ---
> base-commit: 5225952d74d43e4c054731c74b8afd700b23a94a
> change-id: 20231205-objdump_reformat-awk-handle-llvm-objdump-bad_expr-9e74cd2a08b5
> 
> Best regards,
> -- 
> Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
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