Qixing Xue via llvm-dev
2021-Mar-12 10:31 UTC
[llvm-dev] [RISCV] Instruction grouping problem encountered while reusing B extension in K ext
Hello to those working on RISCV, As formerly discussed in riscv/riscv-crypto#81<https://github.com/riscv/riscv-crypto/issues/81>, we are currently implementing MC Layer of K extension for LLVM. While setting predicates property for instructions, we encountered the problem that the Zkg and Zkb feature sets are reusing part but not all instructions from Zbp and Zbc extensions, as shown in the image in the issue (the same image in attachment; asterisk "means the extensions are expected to be unchanged in the official version"). By acknowledging that we cannot simply reuse the whole set of Zbp and Zbc instructions, this might require us to further group the instructions by modifying the definition file (`.td` TableGen file) of B extension. This seems a bit invasive since it requires to rename things like `HasStdExtZbbOrZbp` into `HasStdExtZbbOrZbpOrZkb`, take instruction ror for example. This problem seems applies to both GCC and LLVM in a similar way and I am wondering whether this modification is acceptable, or are there any other ideas? Best Regards, Qixing Xue (@ksyx) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20210312/f989ed43/attachment-0001.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: inst-grouping.png Type: image/png Size: 344189 bytes Desc: inst-grouping.png URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20210312/f989ed43/attachment-0001.png>