Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] ARM: AREG0 conversion

[Laurent Desnogues]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Blue Swirl <address@hidden> wrote:
> Convert ARM to AREG0 free operation. Survives simple tests.

After fixing the issue about tbl helper usage, I could run some
simple linux-user tests and boot a rather large Linux image.
It looks like the kernel boot is about 5% slower.


Laurent

> URL     git://repo.or.cz/qemu/blueswirl.git
>        http://repo.or.cz/r/qemu/blueswirl.git
>
> Blue Swirl (6):
>  arm: move neon_tbl to neon_helper.c
>  arm: move saturating arithmetic to helper.c
>  arm: move other arithmetic to helper.c
>  arm: move cpsr and banked register access to helper.c
>  arm: move exception and wfi helpers to helper.c
>  arm: move load and store helpers, switch to AREG0 free mode
>
>  Makefile.target          |    4 +-
>  configure                |    2 +-
>  target-arm/helper.c      |  388 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  target-arm/helper.h      |   60 ++++----
>  target-arm/neon_helper.c |   22 +++
>  target-arm/op_helper.c   |  430 
> ----------------------------------------------
>  target-arm/translate.c   |  148 ++++++++--------
>  7 files changed, 513 insertions(+), 541 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 target-arm/op_helper.c
>
> --
> 1.7.9
>