Re: [Qemu-devel] [RISU PATCH v3 00/18] Support for generating x86 SIMD test images

[Jan Bobek <jan.bobek@gmail.com>]

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On 7/12/19 9:34 AM, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 
> Jan Bobek <jan.bobek@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> This is v3 of the patch series posted in [1] and [2]. Note that this
>> is the first fully-featured patch series implementing all desired
>> functionality, including (V)LDMXCSR and VSIB-based instructions like
>> VGATHER*.
>>
>> While implementing the last bits required in order to support VGATHERx
>> instructions, I ran into problems which required a larger redesign;
>> namely, there are no more !emit blocks as their functionality is now
>> implemented in regular !constraints blocks. Also, memory constraints
>> are specified in !memory blocks, similarly to other architectures.
>>
>> I tested these changes on my machine; both master and slave modes work
>> in both 32-bit and 64-bit modes.
> 
> Two things I've noticed:
> 
>   ./contrib/generate_all.sh -n 1 x86.risu testcases.x86
> 
> takes a very long time. I wonder if this is a consequence of constantly
> needing to re-query the random number generator?

I believe so. While other architectures can be as cheap as a single rand()
call per instruction, x86 does more like 5-10.

Even worse, there are some instructions which cannot be generated in
32-bit mode (those requiring REX.W prefix, e.g. MMX MOVQ). When I let
the script run for a little bit, risugen would get stuck in an
infinite loop, because it could only choose from a single instruction
which wasn't valid for 32-bit....

> The other is:
> 
>   set -x RISU ./build/i686-linux-gnu/risu
>   ./contrib/record_traces.sh testcases.x86/*.risu.bin
> 
> fails on the first trace when validating the playback. Might want to
> check why that is.

The SIMD registers aren't getting initialized; both master and
apprentice need an --xfeatures=XXX parameter for that. Right now the
default is 'none'; unless the instructions are filtered, you'd need
--xfeatures=avx (or --xfeatures=sse, and that only works because on my
laptop, the upper part of ymm registers seems to be always zeroed when
risu starts).

>>
>> Cheers,
>>  -Jan
>>
>> Changes since v2:
>>   Too many to be listed individually; this patch series might be
>>   better reviewed on its own.
>>
>> References:
>>   1. https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-06/msg04123.html
>>   2. https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-07/msg00001.html
>>
>> Jan Bobek (18):
>>   risugen_common: add helper functions insnv, randint
>>   risugen_common: split eval_with_fields into extract_fields and
>>     eval_block
>>   risugen_x86_asm: add module
>>   risugen_x86_constraints: add module
>>   risugen_x86_memory: add module
>>   risugen_x86: add module
>>   risugen: allow all byte-aligned instructions
>>   risugen: add command-line flag --x86_64
>>   risugen: add --xfeatures option for x86
>>   x86.risu: add MMX instructions
>>   x86.risu: add SSE instructions
>>   x86.risu: add SSE2 instructions
>>   x86.risu: add SSE3 instructions
>>   x86.risu: add SSSE3 instructions
>>   x86.risu: add SSE4.1 and SSE4.2 instructions
>>   x86.risu: add AES and PCLMULQDQ instructions
>>   x86.risu: add AVX instructions
>>   x86.risu: add AVX2 instructions
>>
>>  risugen                    |   27 +-
>>  risugen_arm.pm             |    6 +-
>>  risugen_common.pm          |  117 +-
>>  risugen_m68k.pm            |    3 +-
>>  risugen_ppc64.pm           |    6 +-
>>  risugen_x86.pm             |  518 +++++
>>  risugen_x86_asm.pm         |  918 ++++++++
>>  risugen_x86_constraints.pm |  154 ++
>>  risugen_x86_memory.pm      |   87 +
>>  x86.risu                   | 4499 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  10 files changed, 6293 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 risugen_x86.pm
>>  create mode 100644 risugen_x86_asm.pm
>>  create mode 100644 risugen_x86_constraints.pm
>>  create mode 100644 risugen_x86_memory.pm
>>  create mode 100644 x86.risu
> 
> 
> --
> Alex Bennée
> 


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