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Re: [PATCH 1/2] target/arm: Disable VFPv4-D32 when NEON is not available


From: Cédric Le Goater
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] target/arm: Disable VFPv4-D32 when NEON is not available
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 09:20:54 +0200
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On 9/29/22 01:00, Joel Stanley wrote:
On Wed, 28 Sept 2022 at 16:47, Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> wrote:

As the Cortex A7 MPCore Technical reference says :

   "When FPU option is selected without NEON, the FPU is VFPv4-D16 and
   uses 16 double-precision registers. When the FPU is implemented with
   NEON, the FPU is VFPv4-D32 and uses 32 double-precision registers.
   This register bank is shared with NEON."

Modify the mvfr0 register value of the cortex A7 to advertise only 16
registers when NEON is not available, and not 32 registers.

Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>



---
  target/arm/cpu.c | 4 ++++
  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/target/arm/cpu.c b/target/arm/cpu.c
index 7ec3281da9aa..01dc74c32add 100644
--- a/target/arm/cpu.c
+++ b/target/arm/cpu.c
@@ -1684,6 +1684,10 @@ static void arm_cpu_realizefn(DeviceState *dev, Error 
**errp)
          cpu->isar.id_isar6 = u;

          if (!arm_feature(env, ARM_FEATURE_M)) {

Can you explain why the test is put behind the !ARM_FEATURE_M check?

Do you mean the setting of MVFR0 ?

because it was close to the code clearing the SIMD bits (NEON)
of MVFR1 and it seemed more in sync with the specs :

   "When FPU option is selected without NEON, the FPU is VFPv4-D16 and
    uses 16 double-precision registers. When the FPU is implemented with
    NEON, the FPU is VFPv4-D32 and uses 32 double-precision registers.
    This register bank is shared with NEON."

(That said, M processors don't have NEON, so this part of the code
should never be reached )

It could be done outside of this test also because SIMDREG = 1 is
a valid value for M processors and the code path  :

    if (!cpu->has_neon && !cpu->has_vfp) {

will set MVFR0 to 0 later on if needed.


M55 seems to be a special case though :

    cpu->isar.mvfr1 = 0x12100211

these are the FPU and MVE bits.

C.


Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>

+            u = cpu->isar.mvfr0;
+            u = FIELD_DP32(u, MVFR0, SIMDREG, 1); /* 16 registers */
+            cpu->isar.mvfr0 = u;
+
              u = cpu->isar.mvfr1;
              u = FIELD_DP32(u, MVFR1, SIMDLS, 0);
              u = FIELD_DP32(u, MVFR1, SIMDINT, 0);
--
2.37.3





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