From 93ec8e0d511bed398e309cce108b641e926d11e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lkcl Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2021 00:28:07 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] --- openpower/sv/propagation.mdwn | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/openpower/sv/propagation.mdwn b/openpower/sv/propagation.mdwn index 0a7a211bd..84e39b713 100644 --- a/openpower/sv/propagation.mdwn +++ b/openpower/sv/propagation.mdwn @@ -9,12 +9,12 @@ The basic principle is to have a special instruction in an svp64 context that ta | OP | MMM | | | ?-Form | | OP | 000 | idx | imm | | -There are up to 8 possible 64 bit SPRs, the last (indexed 0b111) is always zeros. Each is independently shifting down except when a Context Propagation instruction or an svp64 encoded insteuction is at the current PC. +There are up to 8 possible 64 bit SPRs, the last (indexed 0b111) is always zeros. Each is independently shifting down except when a Context Propagation instruction or an svp64 encoded instruction is at the current PC. Any time the LSB of any one of the 7 Context SPRs is zero, the 24 bit `RM` Context in that SPR is applied to the current 32 bit v3.0B instruction, making it an svp64 opcode instead of v3.0B. -When the 40 bits of any one of the SPRs reaches zero the entire SPR is set to zero, and the entire SPR bank shuffles down so that at no time will there be an DPR containing zeros splitting up the SPRs. This allows a data-dependent fail-first copy of all SPRs to be used as a single instruction because the last SPR will always be zero. +When the 40 bits of any one of the SPRs reaches zero the entire SPR is set to zero, and the entire SPR bank shuffles down so that at no time will there be an SPR containing zeros splitting up the SPRs. This allows a data-dependent fail-first copy of all SPRs to be used as a single instruction because the last SPR will always be zero. -As these changes occur on a fixed schedule compilers should not have difficulties statically allocating the Context Propagation, as long as certain conventions are followed, such as avoidance of allowing the context to propagate through branches used by more than one incoming path, and loops. +As these changes occur on a precise schedule: compilers should not have difficulties statically allocating the Context Propagation, as long as certain conventions are followed, such as avoidance of allowing the context to propagate through branches used by more than one incoming path, and loops. -- 2.30.2