From: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
To: Daniel Henrique Barboza <dbarboza@ventanamicro.com>,
Roan Richmond <roan.richmond@codethink.co.uk>,
qemu-riscv@nongnu.org
Cc: palmer@dabbelt.com, alistair.francis@wdc.com,
liwei1518@gmail.com, zhiwei_liu@linux.alibaba.com,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, alistair23@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add RISCV Zilsd extension
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 16:12:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <89299280-94da-49ce-97d6-90b085ccd16c@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6b90bd55-f2c9-4c6c-9058-16ba147f3c0f@ventanamicro.com>
On 11/6/25 15:47, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
>
>
> On 11/6/25 11:31 AM, Roan Richmond wrote:
>> I understand your point about doing the check before the 2 ld_tl() and the 2 dst_gpr()
>> calls.
>>
>> My reasoning for doing the check after was the wording of the specification:
>> "LD instructions with destination x0 are processed as any other load, but the result is
>> discarded entirely and x1 is not written"
>> This suggests that a load instruction is still dispatched but the result is then discarded.
...
>>>> +/* Zilsd extension adds load/store double for 32bit arch */
>>>> +static bool gen_load_zilsd(DisasContext *ctx, arg_lb *a)
>>>> +{
>>>> + TCGv dest_1 = dest_gpr(ctx, a->rd);
>>>> + TCGv dest_2 = dest_gpr(ctx, (a->rd)+1);
>>>> + TCGv addr_1 = get_address(ctx, a->rs1, a->imm);
>>>> + TCGv addr_2 = get_address(ctx, a->rs1, (a->imm)+4);
>>>> +
>>>> + tcg_gen_qemu_ld_tl(dest_1, addr_1, ctx->mem_idx, MO_SL);
>>>> + tcg_gen_qemu_ld_tl(dest_2, addr_2, ctx->mem_idx, MO_SL);
>>>> +
>>>> + /* If destination is x0 then result of the load is discarded */
>>>> + if (a->rd == 0) {
>>>> + return true;
>>>> + }
If you're looking to not write to r1, then you need to use true temporaries, not
dest_gpr(), which may return r1, which will be modified by the load.
You can drop the unnecessary () in those a->{rd,imm} + c expressions.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-06 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-04 11:59 [PATCH] Add RISCV Zilsd extension Roan Richmond
2025-11-06 12:17 ` Daniel Henrique Barboza
2025-11-06 14:31 ` Roan Richmond
2025-11-06 14:47 ` Daniel Henrique Barboza
2025-11-06 15:12 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
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