Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] [RISCV_PM] Support pointer masking for RISC-V for i/c/f/d/a types of instructions

[Alexey Baturo]

That's a great question, but unfortunately, I don't have an answer for it now.

Let me ask it on J WG meeting that would happen next Monday along with extension naming and CSR numbers(hopefuly).

Thanks!

чт, 15 окт. 2020 г. в 20:00, Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>:

On 10/15/20 8:21 AM, Alexey Baturo wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Baturo <space.monkey.delivers@gmail.com>
> ---
>  target/riscv/insn_trans/trans_rva.c.inc |  3 +++
>  target/riscv/insn_trans/trans_rvd.c.inc |  2 ++
>  target/riscv/insn_trans/trans_rvf.c.inc |  2 ++
>  target/riscv/insn_trans/trans_rvi.c.inc |  2 ++
>  target/riscv/translate.c                | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  5 files changed, 23 insertions(+)

Looks ok.

It does occur to me to wonder how this is intended to work with unaligned
addresses, or large memory operations such as with RVV.

Without changes in the generic tcg code, an unaligned memory op that crosses
the mask will not wrap the second half.  E.g.

  upmbase = 0
  upmmask = 0xffff
  address = 0xfffe
  size    = 8

will read [0x10005 : 0xfffe] and not
[0x0005 : 0x0000] | [0xffff : 0xfffe] as a true wrapping would lead you do believe.


r~