Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] alpha qemu arithmetic exceptions

[Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 01:57:52PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 06/24/2014 01:32 PM, Al Viro wrote:
> > If you have any ideas for testing, I do have working hw (the box that is
> > currently alive is ev45, though; I _can_ try to boot a UP1000 one, but
> > I make no promises regarding its fans, both in PSU and in CPU module ;-/)
> 
> Ah.  Gotta be careful with ev4/45... half of the fpu is unimplemented, and so
> if you're not careful all you're testing is the kernel emulation behaviour.

*nod*

> > Um?  No, I mean having gen_fp_exc_raise() generate a call of one of the 8
> > helpers; gen_ieee_arith3() and friends would remain as-is.  It's just that
> > instead of generating load to exc, andi, call of helper_fp_exc_raise_s or
> > call of helper_fp_exc_raise we would generate a call of one of the
> > helper_fp_exc_raise{,_u,_v,_s,_su,_sui,_sv,_svi} and let that sucker deal
> > with loading exc, updating ->fpcr_exc_status and generating traps.
> 
> Ah, I getcha.  Yes, that makes sense.

FWIW, the crudest version of that is simply
+    env->fpcr_exc_status |= (uint8_t)env->fp_status.float_exception_flags;
in the very beginning of helper_fp_exc_raise_s().  And yes, it recovers
math/tests-misc.c, even though it's obviously not a good final fix.

Al, off to figure out the black magic TCG is using to generate calls...