Re: [Qemu-arm] [PATCH 02/23] target/arm: Add SVE decode skeleton

[Peter Maydell]

On 18 December 2017 at 17:45, Richard Henderson
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Including only 4, as-yet unimplemented, instruction patterns
> so that the whole thing compiles.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <address@hidden>
> ---
>  target/arm/translate-a64.h | 111 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  target/arm/translate-a64.c |  91 +++++++------------------------------
>  target/arm/translate-sve.c |  48 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  .gitignore                 |   1 +
>  target/arm/Makefile.objs   |  11 +++++
>  target/arm/sve.def         |  45 ++++++++++++++++++
>  6 files changed, 233 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 target/arm/translate-a64.h
>  create mode 100644 target/arm/translate-sve.c
>  create mode 100644 target/arm/sve.def

This will be easier to review if you split the stuff that's
purely code motion from the .c file to the .h into its own
patch.


> diff --git a/target/arm/Makefile.objs b/target/arm/Makefile.objs
> index c2d32988f9..d1ca1f799b 100644
> --- a/target/arm/Makefile.objs
> +++ b/target/arm/Makefile.objs
> @@ -10,3 +10,14 @@ obj-y += gdbstub.o
>  obj-$(TARGET_AARCH64) += cpu64.o translate-a64.o helper-a64.o gdbstub64.o
>  obj-y += crypto_helper.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_SOFTMMU) += arm-powerctl.o
> +
> +DECODETREE = $(SRC_PATH)/scripts/decodetree.py
> +
> +target/arm/decode-sve.inc.c: $(SRC_PATH)/target/arm/sve.def $(DECODETREE)
> +       $(call quiet-command,\
> +         $(PYTHON) $(DECODETREE) -o $@ --decode disas_sve \
> +               $(SRC_PATH)/target/arm/sve.def || rm -f $@, \
> +               "GEN", $@)
> +
> +target/arm/translate-sve.o: target/arm/decode-sve.inc.c
> +obj-$(TARGET_AARCH64) += translate-sve.o

If we're serious about the idea that this decoder script is
general purpose, we should have a rules.mak rune for
generally invoking it to create a decode-foo.inc.c from a foo.def.

thanks
-- PMM