[[!tag standards]]
-# SVP64 for OpenPOWER ISA v3.0B
+# DRAFT SVP64 for OpenPOWER ISA v3.0B
-**DRAFT STATUS**
+* **DRAFT STATUS v0.1 18sep2021** Release notes <https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=699>
This document describes [[SV|sv]] augmentation of the [[OpenPOWER|openpower]] v3.0B [[ISA|openpower/isa/]]. Permission to create commercial v3.1 implementations has not yet been granted through the issuance of a v3.1 EULA by the [[!wikipedia OpenPOWER_Foundation]] (only v3.0B)
+Credits and acknowledgements:
+
+* Luke Leighton
+* Jacob Lifshay
+* Hendrik Boom
+* Richard Wilbur
+* Alexandre Oliva
+* Cesar Strauss
+* NLnet Foundation, for funding
+* OpenPOWER Foundation
+* Paul Mackerras
+* Toshaan Bharvani
+* IBM for the Power ISA itself
+
Links:
* <http://lists.libre-soc.org/pipermail/libre-soc-dev/2020-December/001498.html>>
* Independent per-register Scalar/Vector tagging and range extension on every register
* Element width overrides on both source and destination
* Predication on both source and destination
-* Two different *types* of predication: INT and CR
-* SV Modes including saturation (for A/V DSP), mapreduce, fail-first and
+* Two different sources of predication: INT and CR Fields
+* SV Modes including saturation (for Audio, Video and DSP), mapreduce, fail-first and
predicate-result mode.
This document focusses specifically on how that fits into available space. The [[svp64/appendix]] explains more of the details, whilst the [[sv/overview]] gives the basics.
fields set to a reserved value must cause an illegal instruction trap,
to allow emulation of future instruction sets. Unless otherwise stated, reserved values are always all zeros.
-This is unlike OpenPower ISA v3.1, which in many instances does not require a trap if reserved fields are nonzero.
+This is unlike OpenPower ISA v3.1, which in many instances does not require a trap if reserved fields are nonzero. Where the standard OpenPOWER definition
+is intended the red keyword `RESERVED` is used.
# Identity Behaviour
| EXT01 | RM | 1 | RM | 1 | RM |
| 000001 | RM[0] | 1 | RM[1] | 1 | RM[2:23] |
-Following the prefix will be the suffix: this is simply a 32-bit v3.0B / v3.1B
+Following the prefix will be the suffix: this is simply a 32-bit v3.0B / v3.1
instruction. That instruction becomes "prefixed" with the SVP context: the
Remapped Encoding field (RM).
+It is important to note that unlike v3.1 64-bit prefixed instructions
+there is insufficient space in `RM` to provide identification of
+any SVP64 Fields without first partially decoding the
+32-bit suffix. Extreme caution and care must therefore be taken
+when extending SVP64 in future, to not create unnecessary relationships
+between prefix and suffix that could complicate decoding, adding latency.
+
# Common RM fields
The following fields are common to all Remapped Encodings:
| Field Name | Field bits | Description |
|------------|------------|----------------------------------------|
-| MASKMODE | `0` | Execution (predication) Mask Kind |
-| MASK | `1:3` | Execution Mask |
+| MASKMODE | `0` | Execution (predication) Mask Kind |
+| MASK | `1:3` | Execution Mask |
+| SUBVL | `8:9` | Sub-vector length |
+
+The following fields are optional or encoded differently depending
+on context after decoding of the Scalar suffix:
+
+| Field Name | Field bits | Description |
+|------------|------------|----------------------------------------|
| ELWIDTH | `4:5` | Element Width |
| ELWIDTH_SRC | `6:7` | Element Width for Source |
-| SUBVL | `8:9` | Sub-vector length |
+| EXTRA | `10:18` | Register Extra encoding |
| MODE | `19:23` | changes Vector behaviour |
+
* MODE changes the behaviour of the SV operation (result saturation, mapreduce)
* SUBVL groups elements together into vec2, vec3, vec4 for use in 3D and Audio/Video DSP work
* ELWIDTH and ELWIDTH_SRC overrides the instruction's destination and source operand width
* MASK (and MASK_SRC) and MASKMODE provide predication (two types of sources: scalar INT and Vector CR).
+* Bits 10 to 18 (EXTRA) are further decoded depending on the RM category for the instruction, which is determined only by decoding the Scalar 32 bit suffix.
-Bits 10 to 18 are further decoded depending on RM category for the instruction.
Similar to OpenPOWER `X-Form` etc. these are given designations, such as `RM-1P-3S1D` which indicates for this example that the operation is to be single-predicated and that there are 3 source operand EXTRA tags and one destination operand tag.
Note that if ELWIDTH != ELWIDTH_SRC this may result in reduced performance or increased latency in some implementations due to lane-crossing.
# Mode
-Mode is an augmentation of SV behaviour. Some of these alterations are element-based (saturation), others involve post-analysis (predicate result) and others are Vector-based (mapreduce, fail-on-first).
-
-These are the modes:
-
-* **normal** mode is straight vectorisation. no augmentations: the vector comprises an array of independently created results.
-* **ffirst** or data-dependent fail-on-first: see separate section. the vector may be truncated depending on certain criteria.
- *VL is altered as a result*.
-* **sat mode** or saturation: clamps each elemrnt result to a min/max rather than overflows / wraps. allows signed and unsigned clamping.
-* **reduce mode**. a mapreduce is performed. the result is a scalar. a result vector however is required, as the upper elements may be used to store intermediary computations. the result of the mapreduce is in the first element with a nonzero predicate bit. see [[appendix]]
- note that there are comprehensive caveats when using this mode.
-* **pred-result** will test the result (CR testing selects a bit of CR and inverts it, just like branch testing) and if the test fails it is as if the predicate bit was zero. When Rc=1 the CR element however is still stored in the CR regfile, even if the test failed. This scheme does not apply to crops (crand, cror). See appendix for details.
-
-Note that ffirst and reduce modes are not anticipated to be high-performance in some implementations. ffirst due to interactions with VL, and reduce due to it requiring additional operations to produce a result. normal, saturate and pred-result are however inter-element independent and may easily be parallelised to give high performance, regardless of the value of VL.
-
-The Mode table for operations except LD/ST is laid out as follows:
-
-| 0-1 | 2 | 3 4 | description |
-| --- | --- |---------|-------------------------- |
-| 00 | 0 | dz sz | normal mode |
-| 00 | 1 | 0 RG | scalar reduce mode (mapreduce), SUBVL=1 |
-| 00 | 1 | 1 CRM | parallel reduce mode (mapreduce), SUBVL=1 |
-| 00 | 1 | SVM RG | subvector reduce mode, SUBVL>1 |
-| 01 | inv | CR-bit | Rc=1: ffirst CR sel |
-| 01 | inv | dz RC1 | Rc=0: ffirst z/nonz |
-| 10 | N | dz sz | sat mode: N=0/1 u/s |
-| 11 | inv | CR-bit | Rc=1: pred-result CR sel |
-| 11 | inv | dz RC1 | Rc=0: pred-result z/nonz |
-
-Fields:
-
-* **sz / dz** if predication is enabled will put zeros into the dest (or as src in the case of twin pred) when the predicate bit is zero. otherwise the element is ignored or skipped, depending on context.
-* **inv CR bit** just as in branches (BO) these bits allow testing of a CR bit and whether it is set (inv=0) or unset (inv=1)
-* **RG** inverts the Vector Loop order (VL-1 downto 0) rather
-than the normal 0..VL-1
-* **CRM** affects the CR on reduce mode when Rc=1
-* **SVM** sets "subvector" reduce mode
-* **N** sets signed/unsigned saturation.
-**RC1** as if Rc=1, stores CRs *but not the result*
-
-For LD/ST Modes, see [[sv/ldst]]. For Branch modes, see [[sv/branch]] Immediate and Indexed LD/ST
-are both different, in order to support a large range of features
-normally found in Vector ISAs.
+Mode is an augmentation of SV behaviour. Different types of
+instructions have different needs, similar to Power ISA
+v3.1 64 bit prefix 8LS and MTRR formats apply to different
+instruction types. Modes include Reduction, Iteration, arithmetic
+saturation, and Fail-First. More specific details in each
+section and in the [[svp64/appendix]]
+
+* For condition register operations see [[sv/cr_ops]]
+* For LD/ST Modes, see [[sv/ldst]].
+* For Branch modes, see [[sv/branches]]
+* For arithmetic and logical, see [[sv/normal]]
# ELWIDTH Encoding
[`bf16`](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bfloat16_floating-point_format)
is reserved for a future implementation of SV
-## Elwidth for CRs:
-
-TODO, important, particularly for crops, mfcr and mtcr, what elwidth
-even means. instead it may be possible to use the bits as extra indices
-(add to EXTRA2/3) to access the full 128 CRs at the bit level. TBD, several ideas
+Note that any IEEE754 FP operation in Power ISA ending in "s" (`fadds`) shall
+perform its operation at **half** the ELWIDTH then padded back out
+to ELWIDTH. `sv.fadds/ew=f32` shall perform an IEEE754 FP16 operation that is then "padded" to fill out to an IEEE754 FP32. When ELWIDTH=DEFAULT
+clearly the behaviour of `sv.fadds` is performed at 32-bit accuracy
+then padded back out to fit in IEEE754 FP64, exactly as for Scalar
+v3.0B "single" FP.
-The actual width of the CRs cannot be altered: they are 4 bit. Also,
-for Rc=1 operations that produce a result (in RT or FRT) and corresponding CR, it is
-the INT/FP result to which the elwidth override applies, *not* the CR.
-This therefore inherently places Rc=1 operations firmly out of scope as far as a "meaning" for elwidth on CRs is concerned.
-
-As mentioned TBD, this leaves crops etc. to have a meaning defined for
-elwidth, because these ops are pure explicit CR based.
+## Elwidth for CRs:
-Examples: mfxm may take the extra bits and use them as extra mask bits.
+Element-width overrides for CR Fields has no meaning. The bits
+are therefore used for other purposes, or when Rc=1, the Elwidth
+applies to the result being tested, but not to the Vector of CR Fields.
-Example: hypothetically, operations could be modified to be considered 2-bit or 1-bit per CR. This would need a very comprehensive review.
# SUBVL Encoding
Shows all instruction-specific fields in the Remapped Encoding `RM[10:18]` for all instruction variants. Note that due to the very tight space, the encoding mode is *not* included in the prefix itself. The mode is "applied", similar to OpenPOWER "Forms" (X-Form, D-Form) on a per-instruction basis, and, like "Forms" are given a designation (below) of the form `RM-nP-nSnD`. The full list of which instructions use which remaps is here [[opcode_regs_deduped]]. (*Machine-readable CSV files have been provided which will make the task of creating SV-aware ISA decoders easier*).
+These mappings are part of the SVP64 Specification in exactly the same
+way as X-Form, D-Form. New Scalar instructions added to the Power ISA
+will need a corresponding SVP64 Mapping, which can be derived by-rote
+from examining the Register "Profile" of the instruction.
+
There are two categories: Single and Twin Predication.
Due to space considerations further subdivision of Single Predication
-is based on whether the number of src operands is 2 or 3.
+is based on whether the number of src operands is 2 or 3. With only
+9 bits available some compromises have to be made.
* `RM-1P-3S1D` Single Predication dest/src1/2/3, applies to 4-operand instructions (fmadd, isel, madd).
* `RM-1P-2S1D` Single Predication dest/src1/2 applies to 3-operand instructions (src1 src2 dest)
`RM-2P-2S` is for `stw` etc. and is Rsrc1 Rsrc2.
+## RM-1P-2S1D
+
+single-predicate, three registers (2 read, 1 write)
+
+| Field Name | Field bits | Description |
+|------------|------------|----------------------------|
+| Rdest_EXTRA3 | `10:12` | extends Rdest |
+| Rsrc1_EXTRA3 | `13:15` | extends Rsrc1 |
+| Rsrc2_EXTRA3 | `16:18` | extends Rsrc2 |
+
## RM-2P-2S1D/1S2D/3S
The primary purpose for this encoding is for Twin Predication on LOAD
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