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Author SHA1 Message Date
Adrian Hunter
c61f4d5eba perf tools: Add AVX-512 support to the instruction decoder used by Intel PT
Add support for Intel's AVX-512 instructions to perf tools instruction
decoder used by Intel PT.  The kernel's instruction decoder was updated in
a previous patch.

AVX-512 instructions are documented in Intel Architecture Instruction Set
Extensions Programming Reference (February 2016).

AVX-512 instructions are identified by a EVEX prefix which, for the purpose
of instruction decoding, can be treated as though it were a 4-byte VEX
prefix.

Existing instructions which can now accept an EVEX prefix need not be
further annotated in the op code map (x86-opcode-map.txt). In the case of
new instructions, the op code map is updated accordingly.

Also add associated Mask Instructions that are used to manipulate mask
registers used in AVX-512 instructions.

A representative set of instructions is added to the perf tools new
instructions test in a subsequent patch.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1469003437-32706-4-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-07-21 09:37:18 -03:00
Josh Poimboeuf
19072f23d1 x86/asm/decoder: Use explicitly signed chars
When running objtool on a ppc64le host to analyze x86 binaries, it
reports a lot of false warnings like:

  ipc/compat_mq.o: warning: objtool: compat_SyS_mq_open()+0x91: can't find jump dest instruction at .text+0x3a5

The warnings are caused by the x86 instruction decoder setting the wrong
value for the jump instruction's immediate field because it assumes that
"char == signed char", which isn't true for all architectures.  When
converting char to int, gcc sign-extends on x86 but doesn't sign-extend
on ppc64le.

According to the gcc man page, that's a feature, not a bug:

  > Each kind of machine has a default for what "char" should be.  It is
  > either like "unsigned char" by default or like "signed char" by
  > default.
  >
  > Ideally, a portable program should always use "signed char" or
  > "unsigned char" when it depends on the signedness of an object.

Conform to the "standards" by changing the "char" casts to "signed
char".  This results in no actual changes to the object code on x86.

Note: the x86 decoder now lives in three different locations in the
kernel tree, which are all kept in sync via makefile checks and
warnings: in-kernel, perf, and objtool.  This fixes all three locations.
Eventually we should probably try to at least converge the two separate
"tools" locations into a single shared location.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9dd4161719b20e6def9564646d68bfbe498c549f.1456962210.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-03-03 16:13:00 +01:00
Adrian Hunter
5839a5506d perf tools: Fix tarball build broken by pt/bts
Fix some include paths and add missing inat_types.h.

Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/55D77696.60102@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-08-22 12:27:07 -03:00
Adrian Hunter
237fae79f5 perf tools: Add Intel PT instruction decoder
Add support for decoding instructions for Intel Processor Trace.  The
kernel x86 instruction decoder is copied for this.

This essentially provides intel_pt_get_insn() which takes a binary
buffer, uses the kernel's x86 instruction decoder to get details of the
instruction and then categorizes it for consumption by an Intel PT
decoder.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1439450095-30122-1-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-08-17 11:11:36 -03:00