266bd25c48
Convert the VFP VMLA instruction to decodetree.
This is the first of the VFP 3-operand data processing instructions,
so we include in this patch the code which loops over the elements
for an old-style VFP vector operation. The existing code to do this
looping uses the deprecated cpu_F0s/F0d/F1s/F1d TCG globals; since
we are going to be converting instructions one at a time anyway
we can take the opportunity to make the new loop use TCG temporaries,
which means we can do that conversion one operation at a time
rather than needing to do it all in one go.
We include an UNDEF check which was missing in the old code:
short-vector operations (with stride or length non-zero) were
deprecated in v7A and must UNDEF in v8A, so if the MVFR0 FPShVec
field does not indicate that support for short vectors is present
we UNDEF the operations that would use them. (This is a change
of behaviour for Cortex-A7, Cortex-A15 and the v8 CPUs, which
previously were all incorrectly allowing short-vector operations.)
Note that the conversion fixes a bug in the old code for the
case of VFP short-vector "mixed scalar/vector operations". These
happen where the destination register is in a vector bank but
but the second operand is in a scalar bank. For example
vmla.f64 d10, d1, d16 with length 2 stride 2
is equivalent to the pair of scalar operations
vmla.f64 d10, d1, d16
vmla.f64 d8, d3, d16
where the destination and first input register cycle through
their vector but the second input is scalar (d16). In the
old decoder the gen_vfp_F1_mul() operation uses cpu_F1{s,d}
as a temporary output for the multiply, which trashes the
second input operand. For the fully-scalar case (where we
never do a second iteration) and the fully-vector case
(where the loop loads the new second input operand) this
doesn't matter, but for the mixed scalar/vector case we
will end up using the wrong value for later loop iterations.
In the new code we use TCG temporaries and so avoid the bug.
This bug is present for all the multiply-accumulate insns
that operate on short vectors: VMLA, VMLS, VNMLA, VNMLS.
Note 2: the expression used to calculate the next register
number in the vector bank is not in fact correct; we leave
this behaviour unchanged from the old decoder and will
fix this bug later in the series.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
QEMU README
===========
QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.
QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).
QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.
QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.
QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.
Building
========
QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
https://qemu.org/Hosts/Linux
https://qemu.org/Hosts/Mac
https://qemu.org/Hosts/W32
Submitting patches
==================
The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.
git clone https://git.qemu.org/git/qemu.git
When submitting patches, one common approach is to use 'git
format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
guidelines set out in the HACKING and CODING_STYLE files.
Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
the QEMU website
https://qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
https://qemu.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches
The QEMU website is also maintained under source control.
git clone https://git.qemu.org/git/qemu-web.git
https://www.qemu.org/2017/02/04/the-new-qemu-website-is-up/
A 'git-publish' utility was created to make above process less
cumbersome, and is highly recommended for making regular contributions,
or even just for sending consecutive patch series revisions. It also
requires a working 'git send-email' setup, and by default doesn't
automate everything, so you may want to go through the above steps
manually for once.
For installation instructions, please go to
https://github.com/stefanha/git-publish
The workflow with 'git-publish' is:
$ git checkout master -b my-feature
$ # work on new commits, add your 'Signed-off-by' lines to each
$ git publish
Your patch series will be sent and tagged as my-feature-v1 if you need to refer
back to it in the future.
Sending v2:
$ git checkout my-feature # same topic branch
$ # making changes to the commits (using 'git rebase', for example)
$ git publish
Your patch series will be sent with 'v2' tag in the subject and the git tip
will be tagged as my-feature-v2.
Bug reporting
=============
The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs
found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
should be reported via:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/
If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
reported via launchpad.
For additional information on bug reporting consult:
https://qemu.org/Contribute/ReportABug
Contact
=======
The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
main methods being email and IRC
- qemu-devel@nongnu.org
https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
- #qemu on irc.oftc.net
Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
found online via the QEMU website:
https://qemu.org/Contribute/StartHere
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