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Re: [PATCH v7 00/22] tcg/ppc: Add vector opcodes


From: Aleksandar Markovic
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 00/22] tcg/ppc: Add vector opcodes
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 11:34:10 +0200


01.10.2019. 23.21, "Mark Cave-Ayland" <address@hidden> је написао/ла:
>
> On 30/09/2019 21:21, Richard Henderson wrote:
>
> > Changes since v6:
> >   * The have_foo tests have been split so that VSX is not
> >     combined with ISA revision.
> >   * The power{7,8,9} patches have been split by isa extension.
> >   * Force the [TABC]X bits on within the VSX instruction defines,
> >     making the usage of the VSX insns clearer, since we have no
> >     additional or'ing of seemingly random bits.
> >
> > Changes since v5:
> >   * Disable runtime altivec detection until all of the required
> >     opcodes are implemented.
> >     Because dup2 was last, that really means all of the pure altivec
> >     bits, so the initial patches are not bisectable in any meaningful
> >     sense.  I thought about reshuffling dup2 earlier, but that created
> >     too many conflicts and I was too lazy.
> >   * Rearranged the patches a little bit to make sure that each
> >     one actually builds, which was not the case before.
> >   * Folded in the fix to tcg_out_mem_long, as discussed in the
> >     followup within the v4 thread.
> >
> > Changes since v4:
> >   * Patch 1, "tcg/ppc: Introduce Altivec registers", is divided into
> >     ten smaller patches.
> >   * The net result (code-wise) is not changed between former patch 1
> >     and ten new patches.
> >   * Remaining (2-7) patches from v4 are applied verbatim.
> >   * This means that code-wise v5 and v4 do not differ.
> >   * v5 is devised to help debugging, and to better organize the code.
> >
> > Changes since v3:
> >   * Add support for bitsel, with the vsx xxsel insn.
> >   * Rely on the new relocation overflow handling, so
> >     we don't require 3 insns for a vector load.
> >
> > Changes since v2:
> >   * Several generic tcg patches to improve dup vs dupi vs dupm.
> >     In particular, if a global temp (like guest r10) is not in
> >     a host register, we should duplicate from memory instead of
> >     loading to an integer register, spilling to stack, loading
> >     to a vector register, and then duplicating.
> >   * I have more confidence that 32-bit ppc host should work
> >     this time around.  No testing on that front yet, but I've
> >     unified some code sequences with 64-bit ppc host.
> >   * Base altivec now supports V128 only.  Moved V64 support to
> >     Power7 (v2.06), which has 64-bit load/store.
> >   * Dropped support for 64-bit vector multiply using Power8.
> >     The expansion was too large compared to using integer regs.
> >
> > Richard Henderson (22):
> >   tcg/ppc: Introduce Altivec registers
> >   tcg/ppc: Introduce macro VX4()
> >   tcg/ppc: Introduce macros VRT(), VRA(), VRB(), VRC()
> >   tcg/ppc: Create TCGPowerISA and have_isa
> >   tcg/ppc: Replace HAVE_ISA_2_06
> >   tcg/ppc: Replace HAVE_ISEL macro with a variable
> >   tcg/ppc: Enable tcg backend vector compilation
> >   tcg/ppc: Add support for load/store/logic/comparison
> >   tcg/ppc: Add support for vector maximum/minimum
> >   tcg/ppc: Add support for vector add/subtract
> >   tcg/ppc: Add support for vector saturated add/subtract
> >   tcg/ppc: Support vector shift by immediate
> >   tcg/ppc: Support vector multiply
> >   tcg/ppc: Support vector dup2
> >   tcg/ppc: Enable Altivec detection
> >   tcg/ppc: Update vector support for VSX
> >   tcg/ppc: Update vector support for v2.07 Altivec
> >   tcg/ppc: Update vector support for v2.07 VSX
> >   tcg/ppc: Update vector support for v2.07 FP
> >   tcg/ppc: Update vector support for v3.00 Altivec
> >   tcg/ppc: Update vector support for v3.00 load/store
> >   tcg/ppc: Update vector support for v3.00 dup/dupi
> >
> >  tcg/ppc/tcg-target.h     |   51 +-
> >  tcg/ppc/tcg-target.opc.h |   13 +
> >  tcg/ppc/tcg-target.inc.c | 1118 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> >  3 files changed, 1101 insertions(+), 81 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 tcg/ppc/tcg-target.opc.h
>
> I've just tried this version with my OS X/MacOS 9 CDROM boot tests and it looks good
> here: no crashes or visible artefacts AFAICT:
>
> Tested-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <address@hidden> (PPC32)
>
>
>

For all patches in this series:

Reviewed-by: Aleksandar Markovic
<address@hidden>


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