From: "Cui, Lili" <lili.cui@intel.com>
To: "Beulich, Jan" <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: "Lu, Hongjiu" <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>,
"binutils@sourceware.org" <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v4 3/9] Support APX GPR32 with extend evex prefix
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2024 12:32:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR11MB5600B51CDF4E1F17AD73F2209E672@SJ0PR11MB5600.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23d613db-1b3b-49d1-96d2-2c17a5d63a46@suse.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2024 5:08 PM
> To: Cui, Lili <lili.cui@intel.com>
> Cc: Lu, Hongjiu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>; binutils@sourceware.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/9] Support APX GPR32 with extend evex prefix
>
> On 25.12.2023 13:23, Cui, Lili wrote:
> >> On 19.12.2023 13:12, Cui, Lili wrote:
> >>> #define Vsz256 Vsz=VSZ256
> >>> #define Vsz512 Vsz=VSZ512
> >>>
> >>> +// The template supports VEX format for cpuid and EVEX format for
> >>> +cpuid &
> >> apx_f.
> >>> +#define APX_F(cpuid) cpuid&(cpuid|APX_F)
> >>
> >> I think the comment wants to go into further detail. Please can you
> >> go back to read what I said when I suggested this construct, in
> >> particular regarding the stripping then done? However, with you not
> >> having found a need to fiddle with cpu_flags_match(), I wonder if this
> construct is needed in the first place.
> >> The earlier suggestion was entirely based on the assumption that
> >> stripping similar to that for other combined VEX/EVEX templates would
> >> be needed here, t
> >>
> >
> > Seeing this, I realized the problem and checked opcodes/i386-tbl.h,
> > for the following entry, we want to set CpuAPX_F and CpuBMI to 1, but
> > gen.c doesn't seem to support the format "cpuid&(cpuid|APX_F)",
>
> I suppose you mean "cpuid|(cpuid&APX_F)"?
>
I tried cpuid|(cpuid&APX_F). Currently this format is not supported.
> > in fact bzhi sets CpuBMI to 1 and CpuAPX_F to 0 . I'm not familiar with the
> relevant logic in gen.c and don't know how to debug it. when you have time,
> could you help take a look ?
>
> Well, now that the patch was committed I of course can easily take a look.
> But with such an outstanding issue, how could the patch have been
> committed in the first place? And isn't it a requirement for making changes to
> i386-gen.c that you sufficiently understand the logic there (which admittedly
> has grown non-trivial)? Anyway - I will need to find time to play with what has
> been committed, but that's not likely to happen in time for 2.42. Hence it is
> quite possible that 2.42 will turn out to have incomplete and/or broken APX_F
> support. But perhaps this was intended to be this way by H.J., when he
> approved the entire series without even a single comment.
>
Although there is a problem in this place, now apx can handle all cases correctly. On the contrary, when this place is corrected, cpu_flags_match() needs to be adjusted, otherwise there will be testcase fail.
Thanks,
Lili.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-04 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-19 12:12 [PATCH v4 0/9] Support Intel APX EGPR Cui, Lili
2023-12-19 12:12 ` [PATCH v4 1/9] Support APX GPR32 with rex2 prefix Cui, Lili
2023-12-22 13:08 ` Jan Beulich
2023-12-25 6:14 ` Cui, Lili
2024-01-04 8:57 ` Jan Beulich
2023-12-19 12:12 ` [PATCH v4 2/9] Created an empty EVEX_MAP4_ sub-table for EVEX instructions Cui, Lili
2023-12-19 12:12 ` [PATCH v4 3/9] Support APX GPR32 with extend evex prefix Cui, Lili
2023-12-22 13:49 ` Jan Beulich
2023-12-25 12:23 ` Cui, Lili
2024-01-04 9:08 ` Jan Beulich
2024-01-04 12:32 ` Cui, Lili [this message]
2024-01-04 12:55 ` Jan Beulich
2023-12-22 14:19 ` Jan Beulich
2023-12-26 7:00 ` Cui, Lili
2024-01-04 9:01 ` Jan Beulich
2024-01-04 12:47 ` Cui, Lili
2023-12-19 12:12 ` [PATCH v4 4/9] Add tests for " Cui, Lili
2023-12-22 14:41 ` Jan Beulich
2023-12-25 13:40 ` Cui, Lili
2024-01-04 9:16 ` Jan Beulich
2024-01-05 6:58 ` Cui, Lili
2023-12-19 12:12 ` [PATCH v4 5/9] Support APX NDD Cui, Lili
2023-12-19 12:12 ` [PATCH v4 6/9] Support APX Push2/Pop2 Cui, Lili
2023-12-19 12:12 ` [PATCH v4 7/9] Support APX PUSHP/POPP Cui, Lili
2023-12-19 12:12 ` [PATCH v4 `8/9] Support APX NDD optimized encoding Cui, Lili
2023-12-19 12:12 ` [PATCH v4 9/9] Support APX JMPABS for disassembler Cui, Lili
2023-12-19 12:35 ` [PATCH v4 0/9] Support Intel APX EGPR Jan Beulich
2023-12-20 8:50 ` Cui, Lili
2023-12-20 8:57 ` Jan Beulich
2023-12-20 10:42 ` Cui, Lili
2023-12-20 11:00 ` Jan Beulich
2023-12-20 11:50 ` Cui, Lili
2023-12-20 12:01 ` Jan Beulich
2023-12-20 12:16 ` Cui, Lili
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