From: Nelson Chu <nelson@rivosinc.com>
To: Tsukasa OI <research_trasio@irq.a4lg.com>
Cc: Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>,
Kito Cheng <kito.cheng@sifive.com>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] RISC-V: Implement "extension variants" for diagnostics
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2022 19:12:58 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPpQWtDJGWBxPPZ1-TYCf9rPVPfNFYO9w900GE5SczQ1Tn_rBw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <349dc99b-2e92-d1e7-0b9e-18c26f923d02@irq.a4lg.com>
Combining the INSN_CLASS will make things complicated and may need
lots of special combine rules in the future. You probably can combine
INSN_CLASS_A and INSN_CLASS_B easier, but it is hard to combine
something like INSN_CLASS_A_OR_B, INSN_CLASS_C_AND_D, ... into one
CLASS, so if we choose your proposal, then we will need a lot of
special handlings in the future, and that's what I don't really hope
to see. Generally, consider we have,
{ insn, INSN_CLASS_A, ... },
{ insn, INSN_CLASS_B, ... },
{ insn, INSN_CLASS_C, ... },
(may have more ... )
The current assembler just reports an error for the last entry. The
checking rule is,
INSN_CLASS_A? -> invalid operands of A -> INSN_CLASS_B? -> invalid
operands of B -> INSN_CLASS_C? -> invalid operands of C
Too strict error report is a bit impractical, since it is difficult to
report accurately by the current mechanism. So two cases,
1. Once any of INSN_CLASS_* is passed, just reporting "illegal
operands" should be enough. Or you probably want to report more,
something like "illegal operands for extension A...", but in fact you
may have a chance to see that all ABC extensions (or both A and C) are
enabled, so which one you want to report? So that's why I said, just
reporting "illegal operands" is acceptable and correct.
2. we don't have any illegal operands since all of the INSN_CLASS* are
not passed. Assume the strings of INSN_CLASS_A/B/C from
riscv_multi_subset_supports_ext are string_A/B/C, then you probably
can just report "extension string_A or string_B or string_C is/are
required". Since we have the beginning entry of riscv_opcode from
str_hash_find, it should be easy to get the whole INSN_CLASS* and
their error string easier.
Anyway, I hope we can try the more general and compromise solutions
for every case, rather than make things too complicated and specially.
Thanks
Nelson
On Sat, Oct 1, 2022 at 4:26 PM Tsukasa OI <research_trasio@irq.a4lg.com> wrote:
>
> On 2022/10/01 16:21, Nelson Chu wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 1, 2022 at 1:27 PM Tsukasa OI <research_trasio@irq.a4lg.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all RISC-V folks,
> >>
> >> GitHub tracker:
> >> <https://github.com/a4lg/binutils-gdb/wiki/riscv_insn_ext_variants>
> >>
> >> While investigating possible implementation of both 'Z[fdq]inx' and 'P'
> >> implementations, I found something common (not just register pairs).
> >>
> >> Here, this patch implements what I call "extension variants".
> >> It was formerly a part of 'Zfinx' fixes (formerly the flag was named
> >> "INSN_F_OR_X").
> >>
> >> If there is a instruction with multiple variants with different requirements
> >> and the assembler fails to parse all variants, there is a case that needs to
> >> refer ALL variants to generate proper diagnostics.
> >>
> >> If an instruction with "INSN_HAS_EXT_VARS" fails on all variants, the
> >> assembler now has a chance to modify the instruction class for proper
> >> diagnostics. A typical use of this feature is to select wider instruction
> >> class when necessary.
> >>
> >>
> >> [Usage: CLZ instruction ('Zbpbo')]
> >>
> >> To implement proposed 'Zbpbo' extension, updating instruction class for
> >> CLZ instruction is not enough. If we change CLZ instruction class from
> >> "INSN_CLASS_ZBB" to "INSN_CLASS_ZBB_OR_ZBPBO", we will **mistakenly**
> >> support that instruction on RV64_Zbpbo because CLZ on 'Zbpbo' is RV32-only.
> >>
> >> Possible use with "INSN_HAS_EXT_VARS" is to define two variants of CLZ
> >> instruction with that flag:
> >>
> >> 1. 'Zbb' (RV32/RV64)
> >> 2. 'Zbpbo' (RV32)
> >
> > Will we write an extra entry for clz can resolve the problem?
> >
> > {"clz", 32, INSN_CLASS_ZBPBO, ...
> > {"clz", 0, INSN_CLASS_ZBB, ...
> >
> > Nelson
>
> I initially thought so but it turned out that it cannot. I learned it
> when I splitted D/Zdinx and Q/Zqinx.
>
> If an instruction entry is not matched because an extension is missing,
> information to store missing extension is stored before trying the next
> variant. The point here is, this information is _overwritten_ when not
> matched and only the last one is used to generate the error message when
> all variants are not matched.
>
> So (on environment with -march=rv32i with no 'Zbb' or 'Zbpbo'), just
> placing two entries like that results in the message saying 'Zbb' is
> required ('Zbpbo' is going to be ignored).
>
> That's why something has to change (and I think that this is the one of
> the simplest solution).
>
> Thanks,
> Tsukasa
>
> >
> >> If both fails, we can widen the instruction class from "INSN_CLASS_ZBPBO"
> >> to "INSN_CLASS_ZBB_OR_ZBPBO" if XLEN is 32.
> >> After doing that, we will get following diagnostics:
> >>
> >> - On RV32: 'Zbb' or 'Zbpbo' is required
> >> - On RV64: 'Zbb' is required
> >>
> >>
> >> [Usage: 'D'/'Zdinx' or 'Q'/'Zqinx']
> >>
> >> Due to use of register pairs, we need to split 'D'/'Q' and 'Zdinx'/'Zqinx'
> >> variants. For instance, if parsing "fmin.d" fails on both 'D' and 'Zdinx'
> >> variants, we have to require 'D' or 'Zdinx', not just 'Zdinx', the last
> >> "fmin.d" variant in riscv_opcodes.
> >>
> >> 1. 'D'
> >> 2. 'Zdinx'
> >>
> >> If both fails, we can widen the instruction class from "INSN_CLASS_ZDINX" to
> >> "INSN_CLASS_D_OR_ZDINX".
> >> After doing that, we will get diagnostics saying 'D' or 'Zdinx' is required.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Tsukasa
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Tsukasa OI (1):
> >> RISC-V: Implement extension variants
> >>
> >> gas/config/tc-riscv.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> >> include/opcode/riscv.h | 5 +++++
> >> 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>
> >>
> >> base-commit: b4477c7f666bdeb7f8e998633c7b0cb62310b9ef
> >> --
> >> 2.34.1
> >>
> >
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-06 11:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-01 5:27 Tsukasa OI
2022-10-01 5:27 ` [RFC PATCH 1/1] RISC-V: Implement extension variants Tsukasa OI
2022-10-01 7:21 ` [RFC PATCH 0/1] RISC-V: Implement "extension variants" for diagnostics Nelson Chu
2022-10-01 8:25 ` Tsukasa OI
2022-10-06 11:12 ` Nelson Chu [this message]
2022-10-06 12:08 ` Tsukasa OI
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