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From: Bill Schmidt <wschmidt@linux.ibm.com>
To: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>, Peter Bergner <bergner@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>,
	binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: PowerPC POWER10 updates to dcbf, sync and wait instructions
Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 21:04:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <027660ca-38aa-25ca-f09d-f366c7b65d16@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200519010456.GI1088@bubble.grove.modra.org>


On 5/18/20 8:04 PM, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 04:40:24PM -0500, Peter Bergner wrote:
>> On 5/18/20 3:03 PM, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho wrote:
>>> Power ISA 3.1 states the following (page 1038):
>>>
>>>      The encodings for dcbfps, dcbstps, plwsync, and phwsync were chosen to
>>>      enable software developed to control updates to persistent storage on
>>>      processors that comply with Version 3.1 and subsequent versions of the
>>>      architecture to run compatibly on the POWER9 processor.
>>>
>>> So, I think these instructions should be available on POWER9 too.
>> [snip]
>>> Likewise here.
>>> Power ISA 3.1, page 1087, figure 5 better describes how they're executed on
>>> earlier processors.
>> I don't think this is saying we should enable the new mnemonics on POWER9,
>> but rather if one of these is assembled for POWER10, that they'll run on
>> POWER9 just fine.  Ditto for the sync insns.
>>
>> Alan or Bill,
>>
>> How do you read those paragraphs?
> With the same conclusion as you do.
>
Likewise.

      reply	other threads:[~2020-05-19  2:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-16 22:53 Peter Bergner
2020-05-18  2:36 ` Alan Modra
2020-05-18  3:36   ` Peter Bergner
2020-05-18  4:49     ` Alan Modra
2020-05-18 15:02       ` Peter Bergner
2020-05-18 15:45         ` Peter Bergner
2020-05-19  0:55           ` Alan Modra
2020-05-19 23:11           ` Peter Bergner
2020-05-18 20:03 ` Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho
2020-05-18 21:40   ` Peter Bergner
2020-05-19  1:04     ` Alan Modra
2020-05-19  2:04       ` Bill Schmidt [this message]

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