Re: [PATCH v5 4/9] target/arm/cpu64: max cpu: Introduce sve<N> properties

[Richard Henderson]

On 10/1/19 5:58 AM, Andrew Jones wrote:
> Introduce cpu properties to give fine control over SVE vector lengths.
> We introduce a property for each valid length up to the current
> maximum supported, which is 2048-bits. The properties are named, e.g.
> sve128, sve256, sve384, sve512, ..., where the number is the number of
> bits. See the updates to docs/arm-cpu-features.rst for a description
> of the semantics and for example uses.
> 
> Note, as sve-max-vq is still present and we'd like to be able to
> support qmp_query_cpu_model_expansion with guests launched with e.g.
> -cpu max,sve-max-vq=8 on their command lines, then we do allow
> sve-max-vq and sve<N> properties to be provided at the same time, but
> this is not recommended, and is why sve-max-vq is not mentioned in the
> document.  If sve-max-vq is provided then it enables all lengths smaller
> than and including the max and disables all lengths larger. It also has
> the side-effect that no larger lengths may be enabled and that the max
> itself cannot be disabled. Smaller non-power-of-two lengths may,
> however, be disabled, e.g. -cpu max,sve-max-vq=4,sve384=off provides a
> guest the vector lengths 128, 256, and 512 bits.
> 
> This patch has been co-authored with Richard Henderson, who reworked
> the target/arm/cpu64.c changes in order to push all the validation and
> auto-enabling/disabling steps into the finalizer, resulting in a nice
> LOC reduction.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <address@hidden>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <address@hidden>


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