* To provide a vectorised version of the same, suitable for advanced
predication
-Side-effects:
+Useful side-effects:
-* mtcrweird when RA=0 is a means to set or clear arbitrary CR bits
+* mtcrweird when RA=0 is a means to set or clear
+ multiple arbitrary CR Field bits simultaneously,
using immediates embedded within the instruction.
-
-(Twin) Predication interactions:
-
-* INT twin predication with zeroing is a way to copy an integer into
- CRs without necessarily needing the INT register (RA). if it is, it is
- effectively ANDed (or negate-and-ANDed) with the INT Predicate
-* CR twin predication with zeroing is likewise a way to interact with
- the incoming integer
-
-this gets particularly powerful if data-dependent predication is also
-enabled. further explanation is below.
+* With SVP64 on the weird instructions there is bit-for-bit interaction
+ between GPR predicate masks (r3, r10, r31) and the source
+ or destination GPR, in ways that are not possible with other
+ SVP64 instructions because normal SVP64 is bit-per-element.
+ On these weird instructions the element in effect *is* a bit.
+* `mfcrweird` mitigates a need to add `conflictd`, part of
+ [[sv/vector_ops]], as well as allowing more complex comparisons.
# Bit ordering.
|---|---- |--|-----|-----|-----|----- |----- |--|---- |
|19 |RT | |mask |BFA | |XO[0:4]|XO[5:9]|/ | |
|19 | | | | | |1 //// |00011 | |rsvd |
-|19 |RT |M |mask |BFA | 0 0 |1 mode |00011 |Rc|crrweird |
-|19 |RT |M |mask |BFA | 0 1 |1 mode |00011 |Rc|mfcrweird |
-|19 |RA |M |mask |BF | 0 0 |0 mode |00011 |1 |mtcrrweird |
-|19 |RA |M |mask |BF | 0 1 |0 mode |00011 |0 |mtcrweird |
-|19 |BT |M |mask |BFA | 0 1 |0 mode |00011 |1 |crweirder |
-|19 |BF //|M |mask |BFA | 1 1 |0 mode |00011 |0 |crweird |
+|19 |RT |M |mask |BFA | 0 0 |0 mode |00011 |Rc|crrweird |
+|19 |RT |M |mask |BFA | 0 1 |0 mode |00011 |Rc|mfcrweird |
+|19 |RA |M |mask |BF | 1 0 |0 mode |00011 |0 |mtcrrweird |
+|19 |RA |M |mask |BF | 1 0 |0 mode |00011 |1 |mtcrweird |
+|19 |BT |M |mask |BFA | 1 1 |0 mode |00011 |0 |crweirder |
|19 |BF //|M |mask |BFA | 1 1 |0 mode |00011 |1 |mcrfm |
**crrweird**
mode is encoded in XO and is 4 bits
-bit 19=0, bit 20=0
-
- crrweird: RT, BFA, M, mask.mode
+ crrweird: RT,BFA,M,mask,mode
creg = CR{BFA}
n0 = mask[0] & (mode[0] == creg[0])
mode is encoded in XO and is 4 bits
-bit 19=0, bit 20=0
-
- mfcrrweird: RT, BFA, mask.mode
+ mfcrrweird: RT,BFA,mask,mode
creg = CR{BFA}
n0 = mask[0] & (mode[0] == creg[0])
mode is encoded in XO and is 4 bits
-bit 19=0, bit 20=0
-
- mtcrrweird: BF, RA, M, mask.mode
+ mtcrrweird: BF,RA,M,mask,mode
- n0 = mask[0] & (mode[0] == RA[63])
- n1 = mask[1] & (mode[1] == RA[62])
- n2 = mask[2] & (mode[2] == RA[61])
- n3 = mask[3] & (mode[3] == RA[60])
+ a = (RA|0)
+ n0 = mask[0] & (mode[0] == a[63])
+ n1 = mask[1] & (mode[1] == a[62])
+ n2 = mask[2] & (mode[2] == a[61])
+ n3 = mask[3] & (mode[3] == a[60])
result = n0 || n1 || n2 || n3
if M:
result |= CR{BF} & ~mask
**mtcrweird**
-bit 19=0, bit 20=1
-
- mtcrweird: BF, RA, M, mask.mode
+ mtcrweird: BF,RA,M,mask,mode
reg = (RA|0)
lsb = reg[63] # MSB0 numbering
type operation that has 3-bit Data-dependent and 3-bit Predicate-result
capability (BF is 3 bits)
-**crweird**
-
-bit 19=1, bit 20=0, bit 30=0
-
- crweird: BF, BFA, M, mask.mode
-
- creg = CR{BFA}
- n0 = mask[0] & (mode[0] == creg[0])
- n1 = mask[1] & (mode[1] == creg[1])
- n2 = mask[2] & (mode[2] == creg[2])
- n3 = mask[3] & (mode[3] == creg[3])
- result = n0 || n1 || n2 || n3
- if M:
- result |= CR{BF} & ~mask
- CR{BF} = result
-
-Note that when M=1 this operation is a Read-Modify-Write on the CR Field
-BF. Masked-out bits of the 4-bit CR Field BF will not be changed when
-M=1. Correspondingly when M=0 this operation is an overwrite: no read
-of BF is required because the masked-out bits of the BF CR Field are
-set to zero.
-
-When used with SVP64 Prefixing this is a [[openpower/sv/cr_ops]] SVP64
-type operation that has 3-bit Data-dependent and 3-bit Predicate-result
-capability (BF is 3 bits)
-
**mcrfm** - Move CR Field, masked.
-bit 19=1, bit 20=0, bit 30=1
+This instruction copies, sets, or inverts parts of a CR Field
+into another CR Field. `mcrf` copies only one bit of the CR
+from any arbitrary bit to any other arbitrary bit, whereas
+`mcrfm` copies an entire 4-bit CR Field (or masked parts thereof).
+Unlike `mcrf` the bits of the CR Field may not change position:
+the EQ bit from the source may only go into the EQ bit of the
+destination (optionally inverted, set, or cleared).
- mcrfm: BF, BFA, M, mask.mode
+ mcrfm: BF,BFA,M,mask,mode
result = mask & CR{BFA}
if M:
result ^= mode
CR{BF} = result
-Note that when M=1 this operation is a Read-Modify-Write on the CR Field
+When M=1 this operation is a Read-Modify-Write on the CR Field
BF. Masked-out bits of the 4-bit CR Field BF will not be changed when
M=1. Correspondingly when M=0 this operation is an overwrite: no read
of BF is required because the masked-out bits of the BF CR Field are
**crweirder**
-bit 19=1, bit 20=1
-
- crweirder: BT, BFA, mask.mode
+ crweirder: BT,BFA,mask,mode
creg = CR{BFA}
n0 = mask[0] & (mode[0] == creg[0])
**Example Pseudo-ops:**
- mtcri BF, mode mtcrweird BF, r0, 0, 0b1111.~mode
- mtcrset BF, mask mtcrweird BF, r0, 1, mask.0b0000
- mtcrclr BF, mask mtcrweird BF, r0, 1, mask.0b1111
+ mtcri BF, mode mtcrweird BF, r0, 0, 0b1111,~mode
+ mtcrset BF, mask mtcrweird BF, r0, 1, mask,0b0000
+ mtcrclr BF, mask mtcrweird BF, r0, 1, mask,0b1111
-# Vectorised versions
+# Vectorised versions involving GPRs
The name "weird" refers to a minor violation of SV rules when it comes
to deriving the Vectorised versions of these instructions.
Normally the progression of the SV for-loop would move on to the
next register. Instead however in the scalar case these instructions
**remain in the same register** and insert or transfer between **bits**
-of the scalar integer source or destination.
+of the scalar integer source or destination. The reason is that when
+using CR Fields as predicate masks and there is a need to transfer
+into a GPR, again for use as a predicate mask, the CR Field bits
+need to be efficiently packed into that one GPR (r3, r10 or r31).
Further useful violation of the normal SV Elwidth override rules allows
for packing (or unpacking) of multiple CR test results into (or out of)
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