[PATCH v5 1/5] powerpc/sstep: Emulate prefixed instructions only when CPU_FTR_ARCH_31 is set
Daniel Axtens
dja at axtens.net
Tue Oct 13 00:44:14 AEDT 2020
Hi,
To review this, I looked through the supported instructions to see if
there were any that I thought might have been missed.
I didn't find any other v3.1 ones, although I don't have a v3.1 ISA to
hand so I was basically looking for instructions I didn't recognise.
I did, however, find a number of instructions that are new in ISA 3.0
that aren't guarded:
- addpcis
- lxvl/stxvl
- lxvll/stxvll
- lxvwsx
- stxvx
- lxsipzx
- lxvh8x
- lxsihzx
- lxvb16x/stxvb16x
- stxsibx
- stxsihx
- lxvb16x
- lxsd/stxsd
- lxssp/stxssp
- lxv/stxv
Also, I don't know how bothered we are about P7, but if I'm reading the
ISA correctly, lqarx/stqcx. are not supported before ISA 2.07. Likewise
a number of the vector instructions like lxsiwzx and lxsiwax (and the
companion stores).
I realise it's not really the point of this particular patch, so I don't
think this should block acceptance. What I would like to know - and
maybe this is something where we need mpe to weigh in - is whether we
need consistent guards for 2.07 and 3.0. We have some 3.0 guards already
but clearly not everywhere.
With all that said - the patch does what it says it does, and looks good
to me:
Reviewed-by: Daniel Axtens <dja at axtens.net>
Kind regards,
Daniel
> From: Balamuruhan S <bala24 at linux.ibm.com>
>
> Unconditional emulation of prefixed instructions will allow
> emulation of them on Power10 predecessors which might cause
> issues. Restrict that.
>
> Fixes: 3920742b92f5 ("powerpc sstep: Add support for prefixed fixed-point arithmetic")
> Fixes: 50b80a12e4cc ("powerpc sstep: Add support for prefixed load/stores")
> Signed-off-by: Balamuruhan S <bala24 at linux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria at linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c b/arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c
> index e9dcaba9a4f8..e6242744c71b 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c
> @@ -1346,6 +1346,9 @@ int analyse_instr(struct instruction_op *op, const struct pt_regs *regs,
> switch (opcode) {
> #ifdef __powerpc64__
> case 1:
> + if (!cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ARCH_31))
> + return -1;
> +
> prefix_r = GET_PREFIX_R(word);
> ra = GET_PREFIX_RA(suffix);
> rd = (suffix >> 21) & 0x1f;
> @@ -2733,6 +2736,9 @@ int analyse_instr(struct instruction_op *op, const struct pt_regs *regs,
> }
> break;
> case 1: /* Prefixed instructions */
> + if (!cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ARCH_31))
> + return -1;
> +
> prefix_r = GET_PREFIX_R(word);
> ra = GET_PREFIX_RA(suffix);
> op->update_reg = ra;
> --
> 2.26.2
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