> On Jun 18, 2020, at 6:27 PM, Richard Henderson <richard.hender...@linaro.org> > wrote: > > On 6/12/20 9:20 PM, Lijun Pan wrote: >> vmulld: Vector Multiply Low Doubleword. >> >> Signed-off-by: Lijun Pan <l...@linux.ibm.com> >> --- >> target/ppc/helper.h | 1 + >> target/ppc/int_helper.c | 1 + >> target/ppc/translate/vmx-impl.inc.c | 1 + >> target/ppc/translate/vmx-ops.inc.c | 1 + >> 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/target/ppc/helper.h b/target/ppc/helper.h >> index 2dfa1c6942..c3f087ccb3 100644 >> --- a/target/ppc/helper.h >> +++ b/target/ppc/helper.h >> @@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ DEF_HELPER_3(vmuloub, void, avr, avr, avr) >> DEF_HELPER_3(vmulouh, void, avr, avr, avr) >> DEF_HELPER_3(vmulouw, void, avr, avr, avr) >> DEF_HELPER_3(vmuluwm, void, avr, avr, avr) >> +DEF_HELPER_3(vmulld, void, avr, avr, avr) >> DEF_HELPER_3(vslo, void, avr, avr, avr) >> DEF_HELPER_3(vsro, void, avr, avr, avr) >> DEF_HELPER_3(vsrv, void, avr, avr, avr) >> diff --git a/target/ppc/int_helper.c b/target/ppc/int_helper.c >> index be53cd6f68..afbcdd05b4 100644 >> --- a/target/ppc/int_helper.c >> +++ b/target/ppc/int_helper.c >> @@ -533,6 +533,7 @@ void helper_vprtybq(ppc_avr_t *r, ppc_avr_t *b) >> } \ >> } >> VARITH_DO(muluwm, *, u32) >> +VARITH_DO(mulld, *, s64) > >> From this implementation, I would say that both vmuluwm and vmulld can be > implemented with tcg_gen_gvec_mul(). > > I guess vmuluwm was missed when many of the other vmx operations were > converted > to gvec. > > Please first convert vmuluwm to tcg_gen_gvec_mul, then implement vmulld in the > same manner.
I did a grep in git repo, and found out only arm use this tcg_gen_gvec_mul. The original implementation is very straightforward, and being adopted at many places all over target/ppc/int_helper.c. Why do we need to convert to tcg_gen_gvec_mul, which seems to me very convoluted? Thanks, Lijun