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Violators will be prosecuted; (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256/256) Tue, 3 Dec 2019 04:31:54 -0000 Received: from d06av26.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06av26.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.105.62]) by b06cxnps4074.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id xB34VrnP24838160 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 3 Dec 2019 04:31:53 GMT Received: from d06av26.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C3BAAE051; Tue, 3 Dec 2019 04:31:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from d06av26.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id C177CAE053; Tue, 3 Dec 2019 04:31:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ozlabs.au.ibm.com (unknown [9.192.253.14]) by d06av26.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP; Tue, 3 Dec 2019 04:31:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [9.81.204.28] (unknown [9.81.204.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ozlabs.au.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F14E2A01B6; Tue, 3 Dec 2019 15:31:49 +1100 (AEDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] Initial Prefixed Instruction support To: Jordan Niethe , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org References: <20191126052141.28009-1-jniethe5@gmail.com> From: Andrew Donnellan Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 15:31:50 +1100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.2.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20191126052141.28009-1-jniethe5@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 19120304-0020-0000-0000-00000392D181 X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 19120304-0021-0000-0000-000021E9EFE6 Message-Id: X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:6.0.95,18.0.572 definitions=2019-12-02_06:2019-11-29,2019-12-02 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 suspectscore=0 adultscore=0 spamscore=0 priorityscore=1501 mlxscore=0 bulkscore=0 mlxlogscore=834 lowpriorityscore=0 impostorscore=0 phishscore=0 clxscore=1015 malwarescore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.12.0-1910280000 definitions=main-1912030039 X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: alistair@popple.id.au Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" On 26/11/19 4:21 pm, Jordan Niethe wrote: > A future revision of the ISA will introduce prefixed instructions. A > prefixed instruction is composed of a 4-byte prefix followed by a > 4-byte suffix. > > All prefixes have the major opcode 1. A prefix will never be a valid > word instruction. A suffix may be an existing word instruction or a new > instruction. > > The new instruction formats are: > * Eight-Byte Load/Store Instructions > * Eight-Byte Register-to-Register Instructions > * Modified Load/Store Instructions > * Modified Register-to-Register Instructions > > This series enables prefixed instructions and extends the instruction > emulation to support them. Then the places where prefixed instructions > might need to be emulated are updated. > > A future series will add prefixed instruction support to guests running > in KVM. Snowpatch found sparse warnings: https://openpower.xyz/job/snowpatch/job/snowpatch-linux-sparse/14381//artifact/linux/report.txt (And a few minor checkpatch things too) -- Andrew Donnellan OzLabs, ADL Canberra ajd@linux.ibm.com IBM Australia Limited