[PATCH] powerpc: emulate power5 popcntb instruction
Willschm
will_schmidt at vnet.ibm.com
Tue Aug 29 04:03:35 EST 2006
On Thu, 2006-24-08 at 16:36 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Will Schmidt writes:
>
> I just did a patch to fix the existing masks. Could you do a new
> version of this patch that doesn't include the unrelated mask fixes
> please? Also it would be really nice if you could figure out a way to
> avoid doing the unnecessary 64-bit logical operations on 32-bit
> machines - i.e. using an unsigned long for tmp, but then the constants
> become problematic. Maybe you need something like
>
> #define LCONST(x) ((unsigned long)(x##ULL))
Ok, how about this..
In an attempt to make it easier for a power5 optimized app to run on a
power4 or a 970 or random earlier machine, this provides emulation of
the popcntb instruction.
Signed-off-by: Will Schmidt <will_schmidt at vnet.ibm.com>
---
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
index 2105767..f85a3af 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
@@ -588,6 +588,9 @@ #define INST_LSWX 0x7c00042a
#define INST_STSWI 0x7c0005aa
#define INST_STSWX 0x7c00052a
+#define INST_POPCNTB 0x7c0000f4
+#define INST_POPCNTB_MASK 0xfc0007fe
+
static int emulate_string_inst(struct pt_regs *regs, u32 instword)
{
u8 rT = (instword >> 21) & 0x1f;
@@ -656,6 +659,25 @@ static int emulate_string_inst(struct pt
return 0;
}
+#define LCONST(x) ((unsigned long)(x##ULL))
+
+static int emulate_popcntb_inst(struct pt_regs *regs, u32 instword)
+{
+ u32 ra,rs;
+ u64 tmp;
+
+ ra = (instword >> 16) & 0x1f;
+ rs = (instword >> 21) & 0x1f;
+
+ tmp = regs->gpr[rs];
+ tmp = tmp - ((tmp >> 1) & LCONST(0x5555555555555555));
+ tmp = (tmp & LCONST(0x3333333333333333)) + ((tmp >> 2) & LCONST(0x3333333333333333));
+ tmp = (tmp + (tmp >> 4)) & LCONST(0x0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f);
+ regs->gpr[ra] = tmp;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
static int emulate_instruction(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
u32 instword;
@@ -693,6 +715,11 @@ static int emulate_instruction(struct pt
if ((instword & INST_STRING_GEN_MASK) == INST_STRING)
return emulate_string_inst(regs, instword);
+ /* Emulate the popcntb (Population Count Bytes) instruction. */
+ if ((instword & INST_POPCNTB_MASK) == INST_POPCNTB) {
+ return emulate_popcntb_inst(regs, instword);
+ }
+
return -EINVAL;
}
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