On 5/4/20 11:30 AM, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
On Mon, 4 May 2020, Richard Henderson wrote:
On 5/3/20 5:41 PM, 罗勇刚(Yonggang Luo) wrote:
On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 7:40 AM BALATON Zoltan <address@hidden
<mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
Hello,
On Mon, 4 May 2020, 罗勇刚(Yonggang Luo) wrote:
> Hello Richard, Can you have a look at the following patch, and was that
are
> the right direction?
Formatting of the patch is broken by your mailer, try sending it with
something that does not change it otherwise it's a bit hard to read.
Richard suggested to add an assert to check the fp_status is correctly
cleared in place of helper_reset_fpstatus first for debugging so you could
change the helper accordingly before deleting it and run a few tests to
verify it still works. You'll need get some tests and benchmarks working
to be able to verify your changes that's why I've said that would be step
0. If you checked that it still produces the same results and the assert
does not trigger then you can remove the helper.
That's what I need help,
1. How to write a assert to replace helper_reset_fpstatus .
just directly assert? or something else
You can't place the assert where helper_reset_fpstatus was. You need to place
it in each of the helpers, like helper_fadd, that previously has a call to
helper_reset_fpstatus preceeding it.
Why? If we want to verify that clearing fp_status after flags are processed is
equivalent to clearing flags before fp ops then verifying that the fp_status is
already cleared when the current helper_reset_fpstatus is called should be
enough to check that nothing has set the flags in between so the current reset
helper would be no op. Therefore I thought you could put the assert there for
checking this. This assert is for debugging and checking the change only and
not meant to be left there otherwise we lose all the performance gain so it's
easier to put in the current helper before removing it for this than in every
fp op helper. What am I missing?
I'm not sure what you are suggesting.
If you are suggesting
void helper_reset_fpstatus(CPUPPCState *env)
{
- set_float_exception_flags(0, &env->fp_status);
+ assert(get_float_exception_flags(&env->fp_status) == 0);
}
then, sure, that works. But we also want to remove that call, so in order to
retain the check for debugging, we need to move the assert into the other
helpers.