VSX is an ISA extension supported on the POWER7 and later cores that enhances
floating-point vector and scalar capabilities. Among other things, this adds
<2 x double> support and generally helps to reduce register pressure.
The interesting part of this ISA feature is the register configuration: there
are 64 new 128-bit vector registers, the 32 of which are super-registers of the
existing 32 scalar floating-point registers, and the second 32 of which overlap
with the 32 Altivec vector registers. This makes things like vector insertion
and extraction tricky: this can be free but only if we force a restriction to
the right register subclass when needed. A new "minipass" PPCVSXCopy takes care
of this (although it could do a more-optimal job of it; see the comment about
unnecessary copies below).
Please note that, currently, VSX is not enabled by default when targeting
anything because it is not yet ready for that. The assembler and disassembler
are fully implemented and tested. However:
- CodeGen support causes miscompiles; test-suite runtime failures:
MultiSource/Benchmarks/FreeBench/distray/distray
MultiSource/Benchmarks/McCat/08-main/main
MultiSource/Benchmarks/Olden/voronoi/voronoi
MultiSource/Benchmarks/mafft/pairlocalalign
MultiSource/Benchmarks/tramp3d-v4/tramp3d-v4
SingleSource/Benchmarks/CoyoteBench/almabench
SingleSource/Benchmarks/Misc/matmul_f64_4x4
- The lowering currently falls back to using Altivec instructions far more
than it should. Worse, there are some things that are scalarized through the
stack that shouldn't be.
- A lot of unnecessary copies make it past the optimizers, and this needs to
be fixed.
- Many more regression tests are needed.
Normally, I'd fix these things prior to committing, but there are some
students and other contributors who would like to work this, and so it makes
sense to move this development process upstream where it can be subject to the
regular code-review procedures.
llvm-svn: 203768
The addition of IC_OPSIZE_ADSIZE in r198759 wasn't quite complete. It
also turns out to have been unnecessary. The disassembler handles the
AdSize prefix for itself, and doesn't care about the difference between
(e.g.) MOV8ao8 and MOB8ao8_16 definitions. So just let them coexist and
don't worry about it.
llvm-svn: 199654
The disassembler has a special case for 'L' vs. 'W' in its heuristic for
checking for 32-bit and 16-bit equivalents. We could expand the heuristic,
but better just to be consistent in using the 'L' suffix.
llvm-svn: 199652
When disassembling in 16-bit mode the meaning of the OpSize bit is
inverted. Instructions found in the IC_OPSIZE context will actually
*not* have the 0x66 prefix, and instructions in the IC context will
have the 0x66 prefix. Make use of the existing special-case handling
for the 0x66 prefix being in the wrong place, to cope with this.
llvm-svn: 199650
The implicit immediate 0 forms are assembly aliases, not distinct instruction
encodings. Fix the initial implementation introduced in r198914 to an alias to
avoid two separate instruction definitions for the same encoding.
An InstAlias is insufficient in this case as the necessary due to the need to
add a new additional operand for the implicit zero. By using the AsmPsuedoInst,
fall back to the C++ code to transform the instruction to the equivalent
_POST_IMM form, inserting the additional implicit immediate 0.
llvm-svn: 199032
The disassembler would no longer be able to disambiguage between the two
variants (explicit immediate #0 vs implicit, omitted #0) for the ldrt, strt,
ldrbt, strbt mnemonics as both versions indicated the disassembler routine.
llvm-svn: 198944
The tests for the disassembler were adapted from the encoder tests, and for the
most part, the output from the disassembler matches that encoder-test inputs.
There are some places where more-informative mnemonics could be produced
(notably for the branch instructions), and those cases are noted in the tests
with FIXMEs.
Future work includes:
- Generating more-informative mnemonics when possible (this may also be done
in the printer).
- Remove the dependence on positional "numbered" operand-to-variable mapping
(for both encoding and decoding).
- Internally using 64-bit instruction variants in 64-bit mode (if this turns
out to matter).
llvm-svn: 197693
