[PATCH v2 0/4] VSX 32-byte vector paired load/store instructions

Balamuruhan S bala24 at linux.ibm.com
Thu Jul 16 16:15:54 AEST 2020


VSX vector paired instructions operates with octword (32-byte) operand
for loads and stores between storage and a pair of two sequential Vector-Scalar
Registers (VSRs). There are 4 word instructions and 2 prefixed instructions
that provides this 32-byte storage access operations - lxvp, lxvpx, stxvp,
stxvpx, plxvpx, pstxvpx.

Emulation infrastructure doesn't have support for these instructions, to
operate with 32-byte storage access and to operate with 2 VSX registers.
This patch series enables the instruction emulation support and adds test
cases for them respectively.

Changes in v2:
-------------
* Fix suggestion from Sandipan, wrap ISA 3.1 instructions with
  cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ARCH_31) check.

* Rebase on latest powerpc next branch.

Balamuruhan S (4):
  powerpc/sstep: support new VSX vector paired storage access
    instructions
  powerpc/sstep: support emulation for vsx vector paired storage access
    instructions
  powerpc ppc-opcode: add opcodes for vsx vector paired instructions
  powerpc sstep: add testcases for vsx load/store instructions

 arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc-opcode.h |  11 ++
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/sstep.h      |   2 +-
 arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c              | 110 ++++++++++-
 arch/powerpc/lib/test_emulate_step.c  | 273 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 386 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)


base-commit: b2b46304e9360f3dda49c9d8ba4a1478b9eecf1d
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2.24.1



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