[PATCH 00/14] target/i386: miscellaneous flags improvements

[Paolo Bonzini]

This includes improved translation of checks, microoptimization of the
helpers, and improvements to the cc_op_* functions from Richard.

Unlike his original patches[1] I didn't convert cc_op_live() to a switch
statement, instead keeping the array but making sure that all of its
entries are nonzero.  The only zero entry was CC_OP_CLR, which is now
changed to spill the constant value of EFLAGS to cc_op_src.  While this
has a 0.2% cost in number of TCG ops, getting rid of the special
case for CC_OP_CLR makes it even easier to optimize computation of ZF
from CC_OP_DYNAMIC; this is quite common, for example in switch
statements that have CMP/JG/JE sequences (JE followed JL/JG/JA/JB seems
less common than the opposite, though that's not universal).

On a quick-and-dirty run of "ls -lR", the changes add ~750 spills of
0x44 to cc_op_src; but it also reduces to one half the calls to
cc_compute_all (most of them are completely eliminated), and that
is a lot more expensive.

One thing I noticed is that those spills are really huge (11 bytes).
It might help to move cc_* at the very beginning of CPUX86State, because
the number of accesses to cc_* is comparable to the number of accesses
to registers (despite cc_* being mostly written, while registers are
both read and written).

Thanks,

Paolo

[1] 
https://patchew.org/QEMU/20240701025115.1265117-1-richard.henderson@linaro.org/

Paolo Bonzini (10):
  target/i386: use tcg_gen_ext_tl when applicable
  target/i386: remove CC_OP_CLR
  target/i386: optimize computation of ZF from CC_OP_DYNAMIC
  target/i386: optimize TEST+Jxx sequences
  target/i386: add a few more trivial CCPrepare cases
  target/i386: add a note about gen_jcc1
  target/i386: make flag variables unsigned
  target/i386: use builtin popcnt or parity to compute PF, if available
  target/i386: use higher-precision arithmetic to compute CF
  target/i386: use + to put flags together

Richard Henderson (4):
  target/i386: Tidy cc_op_str usage
  target/i386: Rearrange CCOp
  target/i386: Introduce cc_op_size
  target/i386: Wrap cc_op_live with a validity check

 include/qemu/host-utils.h                |  16 +++
 target/i386/cpu.h                        |  33 ++++--
 target/i386/helper.h                     |   1 +
 target/i386/tcg/helper-tcg.h             |  12 +++
 target/i386/tcg/cc_helper_template.h.inc | 127 +++++++++++++++--------
 target/i386/cpu-dump.c                   |  18 ++--
 target/i386/tcg/cc_helper.c              |  25 ++++-
 target/i386/tcg/int_helper.c             |   4 +-
 target/i386/tcg/translate.c              | 103 ++++++++++++------
 target/i386/tcg/decode-new.c.inc         |   2 +-
 target/i386/tcg/emit.c.inc               |  24 ++---
 11 files changed, 249 insertions(+), 116 deletions(-)

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