Re: [RFC PATCH] tests/tcg: drop -cpu max from s390x sha512-mvx invocation

[Alex Bennée]

Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:

> On 09/03/2022 12.22, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> With -cpu max we get a warning:
>>    qemu-s390x: warning: 'msa5-base' requires 'kimd-sha-512'.
>> But dropping the -cpu max and it still runs fine.
>> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>> Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>   tests/tcg/s390x/Makefile.target | 2 --
>>   1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>> diff --git a/tests/tcg/s390x/Makefile.target
>> b/tests/tcg/s390x/Makefile.target
>> index 257c568c58..7aa502a557 100644
>> --- a/tests/tcg/s390x/Makefile.target
>> +++ b/tests/tcg/s390x/Makefile.target
>> @@ -34,6 +34,4 @@ sha512-mvx: CFLAGS=-march=z13 -mvx -O3
>>   sha512-mvx: sha512.c
>>      $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(EXTRA_CFLAGS) $< -o $@ $(LDFLAGS)
>>   -run-sha512-mvx: QEMU_OPTS+=-cpu max
>> -
>>   TESTS+=sha512-mvx
>
> Ok, this helps to get rid of the warnings, thus feel free to add:
>
> Tested-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>
> However, the error still persists. I now had a closer look by running
> the test with "qemu-s390x" on my z15 machine directly, and all tests
> are failing! The problem happens with both, gcc v11.2.1 and clang
> v13.0.1. The problem goes away (i.e. test works fine) if I compile the
> code with -O1 instead of -O3, or if I use GCC v8.5 instead. I'll try
> to find out more, but as a temporary workaround, we could also switch
> to -O1 instead of -O3.

The -O3 is included to force the compiler to vectorise the code -
otherwise you will get the same code as the plain sha512 test. However
is it because gcc v11.2.1 is using even more advanced mvx instructions
or just getting it's code generation wrong?

Do the tests also fail when run natively?

>
>  Thomas


-- 
Alex Bennée