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Re: [Qemu-riscv] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] RISCV: support riscv vector extens


From: liuzhiwei
Subject: Re: [Qemu-riscv] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] RISCV: support riscv vector extension 0.7.1
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 14:36:38 +0800
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On 2019/8/30 上午5:50, Alistair Francis wrote:
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 5:05 AM liuzhiwei <address@hidden> wrote:
On 2019/8/29 上午5:34, Alistair Francis wrote:
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 12:04 AM liuzhiwei <address@hidden> wrote:
Change-Id: I3cf891bc400713b95f47ecca82b1bf773f3dcb25
Signed-off-by: liuzhiwei <address@hidden>
---
   fpu/softfloat.c                         |   119 +
   include/fpu/softfloat.h                 |     4 +
   linux-user/riscv/cpu_loop.c             |     8 +-
   target/riscv/Makefile.objs              |     2 +-
   target/riscv/cpu.h                      |    30 +
   target/riscv/cpu_bits.h                 |    15 +
   target/riscv/cpu_helper.c               |     7 +
   target/riscv/csr.c                      |    65 +-
   target/riscv/helper.h                   |   354 +
   target/riscv/insn32.decode              |   374 +-
   target/riscv/insn_trans/trans_rvv.inc.c |   484 +
   target/riscv/translate.c                |     1 +
   target/riscv/vector_helper.c            | 26563 
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
   13 files changed, 28017 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
   create mode 100644 target/riscv/insn_trans/trans_rvv.inc.c
   create mode 100644 target/riscv/vector_helper.c

Hello,

Thanks for the patch!

As others have pointed out you will need to split the patch up into
multiple smaller patches, otherwise it is too hard to review almost
30,000 lines of code.
Hi, Alistair

I'm so sorry for the inconvenience. It will be a patch set with a cover
letter in V2.
No worries.

Can you also include a cover letter with your patch series describing
how you are testing this? AFAIK vector extension support isn't in any
compiler so I'm assuming you are handwriting the assembly or have
toolchain patches. Either way it will help if you can share that so
others can test your implementation.
Yes, it's handwriting assembly. The assembler in Binutils has support
Vector extension.  First define an function test_vadd_vv_8 in assembly
and then it can be called from a C program.

The function is something like

/* vadd.vv */
TEST_FUNC(test_vadd_vv_8)
          vsetvli        t1, x0, e8, m2
          vlb.v           v6, (a4)
          vsb.v           v6, (a3)
          vsetvli        t1, a0, e8, m2
          vlb.v           v0, (a1)
          vlb.v           v2, (a2)
          vadd.vv     v4, v0, v2
          vsb.v          v4, (a3)
ret
          .size   test_vadd_vv_8, .-test_vadd_vv_8
If possible it might be worth releasing the code that you are using for testing.
Yes,  but I didn't find a good place to release these test codes currently.

It takes more time to test than to implement the instructions. Maybe
there is some better test method or some forced test cases in QEMU.
Could you give me some advice for testing?
Richard's idea of risu seems like a good option.
All the test cases will be validated in Spike,  which has supported the same vector specification. But this  cross validation work may delay until V3. I will split the patch, and address comments as soon as possible, to ensure the patch V2 can be sent next week.
Would it be all right?

Thinking about it a bit more we are going to have other extensions in
the future that will need assembly testing so setting up a test
framework seems like a good idea. I am happy to help try and get this
going as well.

Alistair
There is usually a big difference between new a ISA extension and the others. I doubt there is an general framework. A very light framework  includes building, input aiding  generation, result validation, and report maybe OK .

Best Regards,
Zhiwei
Best Regards,

Zhiwei

Alex and Richard have kindly started the review. Once you have
addressed their comments and split this patch up into smaller patches
you can send a v2 and we can go from there.

Once again thanks for doing this implementation for QEMU!

Alistair




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