Re: [PATCH v2 14/14] perf arm-spe: Add support for ARMv8.3-SPE

["André Przywara" <andre.przywara@arm.com>]

On 21/10/2020 11:17, Leo Yan wrote:

Hi Leo,

> On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 10:26:07AM +0100, Andr� Przywara wrote:
>> On 21/10/2020 06:10, Leo Yan wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 10:54:44PM +0100, Andr� Przywara wrote:
>>>> On 29/09/2020 14:39, Leo Yan wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>> From: Wei Li <liwei391@huawei.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> This patch is to support Armv8.3 extension for SPE, it adds alignment
>>>>> field in the Events packet and it supports the Scalable Vector Extension
>>>>> (SVE) for Operation packet and Events packet with two additions:
>>>>>
>>>>>   - The vector length for SVE operations in the Operation Type packet;
>>>>>   - The incomplete predicate and empty predicate fields in the Events
>>>>>     packet.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Wei Li <liwei391@huawei.com>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>  .../arm-spe-decoder/arm-spe-pkt-decoder.c     | 84 ++++++++++++++++++-
>>>>>  .../arm-spe-decoder/arm-spe-pkt-decoder.h     |  6 ++
>>>>>  2 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/arm-spe-decoder/arm-spe-pkt-decoder.c b/tools/perf/util/arm-spe-decoder/arm-spe-pkt-decoder.c
>>>>> index 05a4c74399d7..3ec381fddfcb 100644
>>>>> --- a/tools/perf/util/arm-spe-decoder/arm-spe-pkt-decoder.c
>>>>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/arm-spe-decoder/arm-spe-pkt-decoder.c
>>>>> @@ -342,14 +342,73 @@ int arm_spe_pkt_desc(const struct arm_spe_pkt *packet, char *buf,
>>>>>  					return ret;
>>>>>  			}
>>>>>  		}
>>>>> +		if (idx > 2) {
>>>>
>>>> As I mentioned in the other patch, I doubt this extra comparison is
>>>> useful. Does that protect us from anything?
>>>
>>> It's the same reason with Event packet which have explained for replying
>>> patch 10, the condition is to respect the SPE specifiction:
>>>
>>>   E[11], byte 1, bit [11], when SZ == 0b10 , or SZ == 0b11
>>>      Alignment.
>>>      ...
>>>      Otherwise this bit reads-as-zero.
>>>
>>> So we gives higher priority for checking payload size than the Event
>>> bit setting; if you have other thinking for this, please let me know.
>>
>> Ah, thanks for pointing this out. It looks like a bug in the manual
>> then, because I don't see why bit 11 should be any different from bits
>> [10:8] and bits [15:12] in this respect. And in the diagrams above you
>> clearly see bit 11 being shown even when SZ == 0b01.
>>
>> I will try to follow this up here.
> 
> Thanks for following up!

Just got the confirmation that this is indeed a bug in the manual. It
will be fixed, but since the ARM ARM isn't published on a daily base, it
might take a while to trickle in.

Cheers,
Andre


> 
>>>>> +			if (payload & SPE_EVT_PKT_ALIGNMENT) {
>>>>
>>>> Mmh, but this is bit 11, right?
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>>> So would need to go into the (idx > 1)
>>>> section (covering bits 8-15)? Another reason to ditch this comparison above.
>>>
>>> As has explained in patch 10, idx is not the same thing with "sz"
>>> field; "idx" stands for payload length in bytes, so:
>>>
>>>   idx = 1 << sz
>>>
>>> The spec defines the sz is 2 or 3, thus idx is 4 or 8; so this is why
>>> here use the condition "(idx > 2)".
>>>
>>> I think here need to refine code for more explict expression so can
>>> avoid confusion.  So I think it's better to condition such like:
>>>
>>>   if (payload_len >= 4) {
>>
>> Yes, that would be (or have been) more helpful, but as mentioned in the
>> other patch, I'd rather see those comparisons go entirely.
> 
> Agree.  Will remove comparisons in next version.
> 
> Thanks,
> Leo
>