Re: ARM SVE issues with non "standard" vector lengths

[Richard Henderson]

On 4/23/20 6:59 AM, Laurent Desnogues wrote:
> 2. sve_zip_p
> 
> This generates extraneous data in the higher part of the result.
> 
> I hit this when I got a wrong result on an instruction that ends up
> using sve_cntp which counts all bits set in each 64-bit chunk. There
> might be some other instructions beyond ZIP that generate extra data
> that would break sve_cntp.  So perhaps it'd be easier to fix sve_cmtp
> (and hope that it's the only function that uses bits beyond vector
> length...).

I don't see how sve_zip_p can set high bits.  If vl is not a multiple of 512,
it writes in units of uint16_t.  This cannot produce values outside range.

Are you certain that the high bits were not set and left over by some previous
buggy operation, since the uint16_t writes would not clear any extra bits?


r~