From: Ulrich Weigand <Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com>
To: Abhay Kandpal <abhay@linux.ibm.com>,
"gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Cc: "cel@linux.ibm.com" <cel@linux.ibm.com>, Abhay Kandpal <Abhay.k@ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] PowerPC: Add support for Dense Math registers (RFC02653)
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:11:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0bcbd62bdb115b97f610c23d5821470e29772079.camel@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260929085655.1053446-1-abhay@linux.ibm.com>
Abhay Kandpal <abhay@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>gdb/
> * arch/ppc-linux-common.h (PPC_LINUX_SIZEOF_DMRREGSET):
Define.
> (ppc_linux_features): Add isa32 field.
> (ppc_linux_no_features): Initialize isa32 to false.
> * arch/ppc-linux-common.c (ppc_linux_match_description):
Return
> the ISA 3.X target description when isa32 is set.
> * arch/ppc-linux-tdesc.h (tdesc_powerpc_isa32_vsx32l)
> (tdesc_powerpc_isa32_vsx64l): Declare.
> * features/Makefile: Add powerpc-isa32-vsx32l and
> powerpc-isa32-vsx64l entries.
> * features/rs6000/power-dmr.xml: New file.
> * features/rs6000/powerpc-isa32-vsx32l.xml: New file.
> * features/rs6000/powerpc-isa32-vsx64l.xml: New file.
> * features/rs6000/powerpc-isa32-vsx32l.c: New generated file.
> * features/rs6000/powerpc-isa32-vsx64l.c: New generated file.
> * regformats/rs6000/powerpc-isa32-vsx32l.dat: New generated
file.
> * regformats/rs6000/powerpc-isa32-vsx64l.dat: New generated
file.
> * nat/ppc-linux.h (PPC_FEATURE2_DMF): Define if not already
> defined.
> * ppc-linux-nat.c (fetch_register, fetch_ppc_registers): Fetch
the
> dmr regset.
> (store_register, store_ppc_registers): Store the dmr regset.
> (ppc_linux_nat_target::read_description): Detect Dense Math
> availability and set the isa32 field in the features struct.
> * ppc-linux-tdep.c (ppc32_regmap_dmr, ppc32_linux_dmrregset):
> New globals.
> (ppc_linux_iterate_over_regset_sections): Call back with the
dmr
> regset.
> * ppc-linux-tdep.h (ppc32_linux_dmrregset): Declare.
> * ppc-tdep.h (struct ppc_gdbarch_tdep) <ppc_dmr0_regnum>: New
> field.
> (enum): <PPC_DMR0_REGNUM> through <PPC_DMR7_REGNUM>: New enum
> values.
> (PPC_IS_DMR_REGNUM): Define.
> * rs6000-tdep.c (rs6000_gdbarch_init): Look for and validate
the
> dmr feature.
>
>gdbserver/
> * configure.srv (powerpc*-*-linux*): Add rs6000/power-dmr.xml,
> powerpc-isa32-vsx32l.o and powerpc-isa32-vsx64l.o.
> * linux-ppc-low.cc (ppc_fill_dmrregset, ppc_store_dmrregset):
> New functions.
> (ppc_regsets): Add entry for dmr regset.
> (ppc_target::low_arch_setup): Detect Dense Math availability
and
> set isa32 in the features struct. Set size for dmr regset.
> (ppc_target::get_ipa_tdesc_idx): Return PPC_TDESC_ISA32_VSX
for
> the ISA 3.X target description.
> * linux-ppc-ipa.cc (ppc_get_ipa_tdesc): Handle
PPC_TDESC_ISA32_VSX.
> * linux-ppc-tdesc-init.h (PPC_TDESC_ISA32_VSX): New enum
value.
> (init_registers_powerpc_isa32_vsx32l): Declare.
> (init_registers_powerpc_isa32_vsx64l): Declare.
This version is OK.
Thanks,
Ulrich
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