> ~eopxd <eo...@git.sr.ht> 於 2022年5月11日 上午12:49 寫道:
> 
> According to v-spec, tail agnostic behavior can be either kept as
> undisturbed or set elements' bits to all 1s. To distinguish the
> difference of tail policies, QEMU should be able to simulate the tail
> agnostic behavior as "set tail elements' bits to all 1s". An option
> 'rvv_ta_all_1s' is added to enable the behavior, it is default as
> disabled.
> 
> There are multiple possibility for agnostic elements according to
> v-spec. The main intent of this patch-set tries to add option that
> can distinguish between tail policies. Setting agnostic elements to
> all 1s makes things simple and allow QEMU to express this.
> 
> We may explore other possibility of agnostic behavior by adding
> other options in the future. Please understand that this patch-set
> is limited.
> 
> v2 updates:
> - Addressed comments from Weiwei Li
> - Added commit tail agnostic on load / store instructions (which
>  I forgot to include into the patch-set)
> 
> v3 updates:
> - Missed the very 1st commit, adding it back
> 
> v4 updates:
> - Renamed vlmax to total_elems
> - Deal with tail element when vl_eq_vlmax == true
> 
> v5 updates:
> - Let `vext_get_total_elems` take `desc` and `esz`
> - Utilize `simd_maxsz(desc)` to get `vlenb`
> - Fix alignments to code
> 
> v6 updates:
> - Fix `vext_get_total_elems`
> 
> v7 updates:
> - Reuse `max_elems` for vector load / store helper functions. The
>  translation sets desc's `lmul` to `min(1, lmul)`, making
>  `vext_max_elems` equivalent to `vext_get_total_elems`.
> 
> v8 updates:
> - Simplify `vext_set_elems_1s`, don't need `vext_set_elems_1s_fns`
> - Fix `vext_get_total_elems`, it should derive upon EMUL instead
>  of LMUL
> 
> v9 updates:
> - Let instructions that is tail agnostic regardless of vta respect the
>  option and not the vta.
> 
> v10 updates:
> - Correct range to set element to 1s for load instructions
> 
> v11 updates:
> - Separate addition of option 'rvv_ta_all_1s' as a new (last) commit
> - Add description to show intent of the option in first commit for the
>  optional tail agnostic behavior
> - Tag WeiWei as Reviewed-by for all commits
> - Tag Alistair as Reviewed-by for commit 01, 02
> - Tag Alistair as Acked-by for commit 03
> 
> v12 updates:
> - Add missing space in WeiWei's "Reviewed-by" tag
> 
> v13 updates:
> - Fix tail agnostic for vext_ldst_us. The function operates on input
>  parameter 'evl' rather than 'env->vl'.
> - Fix tail elements for vector segment load / store instructions
>  A vector segment load / store instruction may contain fractional
>  lmul with nf * lmul > 1. The rest of the elements in the last
>  register should be treated as tail elements.
> - Fix tail agnostic length for instructions with mask destination
>  register. Instructions with mask destination register should have
>  'vlen - vl' tail elements.
> 
> v14 updates:
> - Pass lmul information to into vector helper function.
>  `vext_get_total_elems` needs it.
> 
> v15 updates:
> - Rebase to latest `master`
> - Tag Alistair as Acked by for commit 04 ~ 14

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> - Tag Alistair as Acked by for commit 15
> 
Sorry, type-o here.
This should be “- Tag Alistair as Acked by Reviewed by for commit 15"

Regards,

cop Chen


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