[PATCH 00/13] Add support for the T-Head vendor extensions

Palmer Dabbelt palmer@dabbelt.com
Fri Sep 16 09:58:29 GMT 2022


On Fri, 16 Sep 2022 02:36:32 PDT (-0700), nelson@rivosinc.com wrote:
> Hi Christoph,
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 8:22 PM Christoph Muellner
> <christoph.muellner@vrull.eu> wrote:
>>
>> From: Christoph Müllner <christoph.muellner@vrull.eu>
>>
>> This series introduces support for the T-Head vendor extensions,
>> which are implemented e.g. in the XuanTie C906 and XuanTie C910
>> processors:
>> * XTheadBa
>> * XTheadBb
>> * XTheadBs
>> * XTheadCmo
>> * XTheadCondMov
>> * XTheadFMemIdx
>> * XTheadMac
>> * XTheadMemIdx
>> * XTheadMemPair
>> * XTheadSync
>>
>> The xthead* extensions are documented here:
>> https://github.com/T-head-Semi/thead-extension-spec/releases/download/2.0.0/xthead-2022-09-05-2.0.0.pdf
>>
>> The "th." instruction prefix prevents future conflicts with standard
>> extensions and has been documentented in a PR for the RISC-V toolchain
>> conventions:
>>   https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-toolchain-conventions/pull/19
>>
>> The goal of this patchset is to provide access to these instruction
>> so that compilers/users can optimize SW accordingly.
>>
>> Note, that the T-Head vendor extensions do not contain all
>> vendor-specific
>> functionality of the T-Head SoCs (e.g. no vendor-specific CSRs are
>> included).
>> Instead the extensions cover coherent functionality, that is exposed to
>> S and U mode.
>>
>> To enable the extensions above, the following two methods are possible:
>> * add the extension to the arch string (e.g.
>> * -march=rv64gc_xtheadcmo_xtheadsync)
>> * implicitly select the extensions via CPU selection (e.g.
>> * -mcpu=thead-c910)
>>
>> The patchset attempts to minimize code changes in generic/infrastructure
>> code. All patches in this series come with tests to avoid future regressions.
>>
>> Christoph Müllner (13):
>>   RISC-V: Add generic support for vendor extensions
>>   RISC-V: Add T-Head CMO vendor extension
>>   RISC-V: Add T-Head SYNC vendor extension
>>   RISC-V: Add support for arbitrary immediate encoding formats
>>   RISC-V: Add T-Head Bitmanip vendor extension
>>   RISC-V: Add T-Head CondMov vendor extension
>>   RISC-V: Add T-Head MAC vendor extension
>>   RISC-V: Add T-Head FMemIdx vendor extension
>>   RISC-V: Add T-Head MemIdx vendor extension
>>   RISC-V: Add support for literal instruction arguments
>>   RISC-V: Add T-Head MemPair vendor extension
>
> There are three minor issues,
>
> 1. Probably need to add new extension support in
> riscv_multi_subset_supports_ext, although it is just used for
> reporting better error messages.
> 2. The operand L seems only to be used for t-head for now, so it
> should be still a vendor operand, named with the X prefix probably
> better.
> 3. I remember Lifang mentioned before that we should add these vendor
> stuff based on the vendor infra in the integration branch, and that's
> what I asked him to rebase his patches  to there before, since the
> previous policy cannot accept vendor stuff on master branch.  But now
> I think most of us agree to accept t-head extensions on mainline
> directly, so I figured these things cannot be blocked by the vendor
> infra and cannot be committed.  That doesn't mean we don't need the
> vendor infra, that means we can support the vendor infra later if me
> or someone have time to move them back to mainline.
>
> Therefore, these patches look good to me for now, thank you very much
> for spending so much time to implement these.  But personally, I think
> we should get the approval from the T-Head guys at least.  Btw, If
> these implementations are referred to and based on the integration
> branch, then I think it would be better to keep at least the
> co-authors there in the commit message here; if these patches are
> re-write without referring to the implementation from the integration
> branch, then I need to apologize to them, because I asked them to
> rewrite their patches over there, and cannot be committed to mainline
> at that time...
>
>>   riscv: gas: Add command line option '-mcpu=' to specify the CPU
>>   riscv: Add T-Head entries for the -mcpu= flag
>
> Not sure if it is necessary to add -mcpu in assembler, since the
> compiler should recognize -mcpu, and will expand it to the correct
> extensions to assembler.  If there are no objections for a period of
> time, then please go ahead and commit these.

I'd also learn towards keeping -mcpu out of the assembler, it's just 
going to result in subtly different behavior between GCC and GAS which 
will cause subtle headaches in the future.  All -mcpu does is set -march 
and -mtune, so if we just continue keeping it in GCC then we have a 
single source of truth.  GCC will already need to understand -march for 
everything that GAS needs to know anyway, so it's not like it's adding 
complexity.

Is there something broken in GCC where -mcpu isn't setting the right 
-march for GAS and thus we're not getting the right extensions enabled?  
If that's the case I'd argue we're better off just fixing the bug over 
there.

>
> Thank you very much
> Nelson
>
>>  bfd/elfxx-riscv.c                             |  39 ++-
>>  gas/config/tc-riscv.c                         | 127 +++++++
>>  gas/doc/c-riscv.texi                          |  70 ++++
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/mcpu-fail-unknown.d   |   3 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/mcpu-fail-unknown.l   |   2 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/mcpu-ok-c906.d        |   6 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/mcpu-ok-c910.d        |   6 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-ba-fail.d     |   3 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-ba-fail.l     |   3 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-ba-fail.s     |   3 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-ba.d          |  13 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-ba.s          |   6 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-bb-fail.d     |   3 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-bb-fail.l     |   7 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-bb-fail.s     |   7 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-bb.d          |  30 ++
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-bb.s          |  22 ++
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-bs-fail.d     |   3 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-bs-fail.l     |   3 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-bs-fail.s     |   3 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-bs.d          |  14 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-bs.s          |   6 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-cmo-fail.d    |   3 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-cmo-fail.l    |  22 ++
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-cmo-fail.s    |  22 ++
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-cmo.d         |  30 ++
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-cmo.s         |  22 ++
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-condmov.d     |  11 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-condmov.s     |   3 +
>>  .../gas/riscv/x-thead-fmemidx-fail.d          |   3 +
>>  .../gas/riscv/x-thead-fmemidx-fail.l          |  18 +
>>  .../gas/riscv/x-thead-fmemidx-fail.s          |  17 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-fmemidx.d     |  25 ++
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-fmemidx.s     |  17 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-mac.d         |  15 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-mac.s         |   7 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-memidx-fail.d |   3 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-memidx-fail.l |  14 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-memidx-fail.s |  14 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-memidx.d      |  53 +++
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-memidx.s      |  48 +++
>>  .../gas/riscv/x-thead-mempair-fail.d          |   3 +
>>  .../gas/riscv/x-thead-mempair-fail.l          |  30 ++
>>  .../gas/riscv/x-thead-mempair-fail.s          |  30 ++
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-mempair.d     |  14 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-mempair.s     |   6 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-sync-fail.d   |   3 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-sync-fail.l   |   6 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-sync-fail.s   |   6 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-sync.d        |  14 +
>>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-sync.s        |   6 +
>>  include/opcode/riscv-opc.h                    | 326 ++++++++++++++++++
>>  include/opcode/riscv.h                        |  27 ++
>>  opcodes/riscv-dis.c                           |  44 +++
>>  opcodes/riscv-opc.c                           | 155 +++++++++
>>  55 files changed, 1394 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/mcpu-fail-unknown.d
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/mcpu-fail-unknown.l
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/mcpu-ok-c906.d
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/mcpu-ok-c910.d
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-ba-fail.d
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-ba-fail.l
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-ba-fail.s
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-ba.d
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-ba.s
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-bb-fail.d
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-bb-fail.l
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-bb-fail.s
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-bb.d
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-bb.s
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-bs-fail.d
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-bs-fail.l
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-bs-fail.s
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-bs.d
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-bs.s
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-cmo-fail.d
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-cmo-fail.l
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-cmo-fail.s
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-cmo.d
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-cmo.s
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-condmov.d
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-condmov.s
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-fmemidx-fail.d
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-fmemidx-fail.l
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-fmemidx-fail.s
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-fmemidx.d
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-fmemidx.s
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-mac.d
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-mac.s
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-memidx-fail.d
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-memidx-fail.l
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-memidx-fail.s
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-memidx.d
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-memidx.s
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-mempair-fail.d
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-mempair-fail.l
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-mempair-fail.s
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-mempair.d
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-mempair.s
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-sync-fail.d
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-sync-fail.l
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-sync-fail.s
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-sync.d
>>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/x-thead-sync.s
>>
>> --
>> 2.37.2
>>


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