On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Peter Maydell
<peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote:
> This patch series is preparatory cleanup for the impending
> AArch64 support.
Thanks, applied 1 to 9.
>
> Patch 1 replaces all the uses of TCGv, tcg_temp_new(), etc in the
> current 32 bit ARM decoder with the specifically-TCGv_i32 versions.
> This is necessary for supporting a 64-bit core, which will have
> TARGET_LONG_BITS==64 (and so TCGv == TCGv_i64) but still wants 32 bit
> vaddrs, register sizes, etc in the A32/T32/T16 instruction sets. The
> mechanical conversion is correct for everything except the arguments
> to tcg_gen_qemu_{ld,st}*, which we handle separately later.
>
> Patches 2-9 remove the gen_ld* and gen_st* helper functions in favour
> of open-coding the creation/deletion of the TCG temp. I think this
> makes the code easier to understand because the temp creation and
> deletion is all at the same level of the code and it reduces the
> current confusing situation where some gen_ functions will destroy a
> temp they're passed and some will not. I think it also brings it
> closer into line with other targets. That said, if there's pushback
> that this part of the patchset is going in the wrong direction I can
> drop it. (Conversely, if people like it then there are other
> functions like load_reg() and store_reg() which could also be changed
> not to create/destroy temporaries.)
>
> Patch 10 fixes the load/store bits that patch 1 did not, by
> abstracting out "AArch32 load/store" into gen functions which
> extend/truncate the 32 bit values to 64 bits as necessary. NB that
> the TARGET_LONG_BITS==64 parts are only compile-tested. I include it
> in this series because it completes the work that patch 1 starts,
> and as motivation/indication of direction.
>
> Peter Maydell (10):
> target-arm: Don't use TCGv when we mean TCGv_i32
> target-arm: Remove gen_ld64() and gen_st64()
> target-arm: Remove uses of gen_{ld,st}* from iWMMXt code
> target-arm: Remove uses of gen_{ld,st}* from Neon code
> target-arm: Remove use of gen_{ld,st}* from ldrex/strex
> target-arm: Remove gen_{ld,st}* from basic ARM insns
> target-arm: Remove gen_{ld,st}* from Thumb insns
> target-arm: Remove gen_{ld,st}* from thumb2 decoder
> target-arm: Remove gen_{ld,st}* definitions
> target-arm: Abstract out load/store from a vaddr in AArch32
>
> target-arm/translate.c | 862
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
> 1 file changed, 490 insertions(+), 372 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>
