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Re: [PATCH v4 24/47] target/ppc: move vrl[bhwd]nm/vrl[bhwd]mi to decodet


From: Matheus K. Ferst
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 24/47] target/ppc: move vrl[bhwd]nm/vrl[bhwd]mi to decodetree
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 17:23:18 -0300
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On 23/02/2022 19:19, Richard Henderson wrote:
On 2/23/22 11:43, Matheus K. Ferst wrote:
Note that rotlv does the masking itself:

/*
  * Expand D = A << (B % element bits)
  *
  * Unlike scalar shifts, where it is easy for the target front end
  * to include the modulo as part of the expansion.  If the target
  * naturally includes the modulo as part of the operation, great!
  * If the target has some other behaviour from out-of-range shifts,
  * then it could not use this function anyway, and would need to
  * do it's own expansion with custom functions.
  */


Using tcg_gen_rotlv_vec(vece, vrt, vra, vrb) works on PPC but fails on x86. It looks like a problem on the i386 backend. It's using VPS[RL]LV[DQ], but instead of this modulo behavior, these instructions write zero to the element[1]. I'm not sure how to fix that.

You don't want to use tcg_gen_rotlv_vec directly, but tcg_gen_rotlv_vec.


I guess there is a typo here. Did you mean tcg_gen_gvec_rotlv? Or tcg_gen_rotlv_mod_vec?

The generic modulo is being applied here:

static void tcg_gen_rotlv_mod_vec(unsigned vece, TCGv_vec d,
                                   TCGv_vec a, TCGv_vec b)
{
     TCGv_vec t = tcg_temp_new_vec_matching(d);
     TCGv_vec m = tcg_constant_vec_matching(d, vece, (8 << vece) - 1);

     tcg_gen_and_vec(vece, t, b, m);
     tcg_gen_rotlv_vec(vece, d, a, t);
     tcg_temp_free_vec(t);
}

I can see that this method is called when we use tcg_gen_gvec_rotlv to implement vrl[bhwd], and they are working as expected. For vrl[wd]nm and vrl[wd]mi, however, we can't call tcg_gen_rotlv_mod_vec directly in the .fniv implementation because it is not exposed in tcg-op.h. Is there any other way to use this method? Should we add it to the header file?

Thanks,
Matheus K. Ferst
Instituto de Pesquisas ELDORADO <http://www.eldorado.org.br/>
Analista de Software
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