Intel Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) extends the EVEX prefix to
support:
- extended general purpose registers (EGPRs) i.e. r16 to r31
- Push-Pop Acceleration (PPX) hints
- new data destination (NDD) register
- suppress status flags writes (NF) of common instructions
- new instructions
Refer to the Intel Advanced Performance Extensions (Intel APX) Architecture
Specification for details.
The extended EVEX prefix does not need amended instruction decoder logic,
except in one area. Some instructions are defined as SCALABLE which means
the EVEX.W bit and EVEX.pp bits are used to determine operand size.
Specifically, if an instruction is SCALABLE and EVEX.W is zero, then
EVEX.pp value 0 (representing no prefix NP) means default operand size,
whereas EVEX.pp value 1 (representing 66 prefix) means operand size
override i.e. 16 bits
Add an attribute (INAT_EVEX_SCALABLE) to identify such instructions, and
amend the logic appropriately.
Amend the awk script that generates the attribute tables from the opcode
map, to recognise "(es)" as attribute INAT_EVEX_SCALABLE.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240502105853.5338-8-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Intel Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) uses a new 2-byte prefix named
REX2 to select extended general purpose registers (EGPRs) i.e. r16 to r31.
The REX2 prefix is effectively an extended version of the REX prefix.
REX2 and EVEX are also used with PUSH/POP instructions to provide a
Push-Pop Acceleration (PPX) hint. With PPX hints, a CPU will attempt to
fast-forward register data between matching PUSH and POP instructions.
REX2 is valid only with opcodes in maps 0 and 1. Similar extension for
other maps is provided by the EVEX prefix, covered in a separate patch.
Some opcodes in maps 0 and 1 are reserved under REX2. One of these is used
for a new 64-bit absolute direct jump instruction JMPABS.
Refer to the Intel Advanced Performance Extensions (Intel APX) Architecture
Specification for details.
Define a code value for the REX2 prefix (INAT_PFX_REX2), and add attribute
flags for opcodes reserved under REX2 (INAT_NO_REX2) and to identify
opcodes (only JMPABS) that require a mandatory REX2 prefix
(INAT_REX2_VARIANT).
Amend logic to read the REX2 prefix and get the opcode attribute for the
map number (0 or 1) encoded in the REX2 prefix.
Amend the awk script that generates the attribute tables from the opcode
map, to recognise "REX2" as attribute INAT_PFX_REX2, and "(!REX2)"
as attribute INAT_NO_REX2, and "(REX2)" as attribute INAT_REX2_VARIANT.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240502105853.5338-6-adrian.hunter@intel.com
The inat-tables.c file has some arrays in it that contain pointers to
other arrays. These pointers need to be relocated when the kernel
image is moved to a different location.
The pre-decompression boot-code has no support for applying ELF
relocations, so initialize these arrays at runtime in the
pre-decompression code to make sure all pointers are correctly
initialized.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200907131613.12703-8-joro@8bytes.org
gawk 5.0.1 generates the following regexp warnings:
GEN /home/sasha/torvalds/tools/objtool/arch/x86/lib/inat-tables.c
awk: ../arch/x86/tools/gen-insn-attr-x86.awk:260: warning: regexp escape sequence `\:' is not a known regexp operator
awk: ../arch/x86/tools/gen-insn-attr-x86.awk:350: (FILENAME=../arch/x86/lib/x86-opcode-map.txt FNR=41) warning: regexp escape sequence `\&' is not a known regexp operator
Ealier versions of gawk are not known to generate these warnings. The
gawk manual referenced below does not list characters ':' and '&' as
needing escaping, so 'unescape' them. See
https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Escape-Sequences.html
for more info.
Running diff on the output generated by the script before and after
applying the patch reported no differences.
[ bp: Massage commit message. ]
[ Caught the respective tools header discrepancy. ]
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190924044659.3785-1-alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com
The kernel tree has three identical copies of the x86 instruction
decoder. Two of them are in the tools subdir.
The tools subdir is supposed to be completely standalone and separate
from the kernel. So having at least one copy of the kernel decoder in
the tools subdir is unavoidable. However, we don't need *two* of them.
Move objtool's copy of the decoder to a shared location, so that perf
will also be able to use it.
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/55b486b88f6bcd0c9a2a04b34f964860c8390ca8.1567118001.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
