Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/15] tcg-mips: Adjust qemu_ld/st for mips64

[Richard Henderson]

On 02/11/2016 03:34 AM, James Hogan wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 09:39:55PM +1100, Richard Henderson wrote:
> > @@ -1212,11 +1237,24 @@ static void tcg_out_tlb_load(TCGContext *s, TCGReg 
> > base, TCGReg addrl,
> >              : offsetof(CPUArchState, tlb_table[mem_index][0].addr_write));
> >       int add_off = offsetof(CPUArchState, tlb_table[mem_index][0].addend);
> >
> > -    tcg_out_opc_sa(s, OPC_SRL, TCG_REG_A0, addrl,
> > -                   TARGET_PAGE_BITS - CPU_TLB_ENTRY_BITS);
> > -    tcg_out_opc_imm(s, OPC_ANDI, TCG_REG_A0, TCG_REG_A0,
> > -                    (CPU_TLB_SIZE - 1) << CPU_TLB_ENTRY_BITS);
> > -    tcg_out_opc_reg(s, OPC_ADDU, TCG_REG_A0, TCG_REG_A0, TCG_AREG0);
> > +    if (use_mips32r2_instructions) {
> > +        if (TCG_TARGET_REG_BITS == 32 || TARGET_LONG_BITS == 32) {
> > +            tcg_out_opc_bf(s, OPC_EXT, TCG_REG_A0, addrl,
> > +                           TARGET_PAGE_BITS + CPU_TLB_ENTRY_BITS - 1,
> > +                           CPU_TLB_ENTRY_BITS);
> > +        } else {
> > +            tcg_out_opc_bf64(s, OPC_DEXT, OPC_DEXTM, OPC_DEXTU,
> > +                             TCG_REG_A0, addrl,
> > +                             TARGET_PAGE_BITS + CPU_TLB_ENTRY_BITS - 1,
> > +                             CPU_TLB_ENTRY_BITS);
> > +        }
>
> The ext/dext here will end up with bits below bit CPU_TLB_ENTRY_BITS
> set, which will result in load of addend from slightly offset address,
> so things go badly wrong. You still need to either ANDI off the low bits
> or trim them off with the ext/dext and shift it left again.
>
> So I don't think there's any benefit to the use of these instructions
> unless CPU_TLB_SIZE + CPU_TLB_ENTRY_BITS exceeds the 16-bits available
> in the ANDI immediate field for the non r2 case.

Hmm.  I thought I'd deleted this code back out.  I must have messed up copying 
trees between machines and overwritten this.


r~