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Message-ID: <CAMKF1sq-jfvp7E8RxZ=bkST78sVue8CZeEEFTjCtvYUrWcN_cA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 18:55:06 -0700
From: Khem Raj <raj.khem@...il.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add PowerPC soft-float support

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net> wrote:
> * Felix Fietkau <nbd@...nwrt.org> [2015-07-10 13:02:51 +0200]:
>> Some PowerPC CPUs (e.g. Freescale MPC85xx) have a completely different
>> instruction set for floating point operations (SPE).
>> Executing regular PowerPC floating point instructions results in
>> "Illegal instruction" errors.
>>
>> Make it possible to run these devices in soft-float mode.
>>
>
> thanks, this looks good
>
> i used
>
> #define MUSL_DYNAMIC_LINKER \
>   "/lib/ld-musl-powerpc" MUSL_DYNAMIC_LINKER_E "%{msoft-float:-sf}.so.1"
>
> in gcc to get a soft float toolchain.
> (MUSL_DYNAMIC_LINKER_E is "le" on little endian).
> but i'm not yet sure if -msoft-float is always passed
> down by gcc for soft float targets.

use --with-float=soft --disable-altivec to configure gcc or may be
target triplet powerpc-linux-musl-gnuspe would work too.

>
> (the gcc config files are rather messy, there might be more
> ppc abi variants lurking there)
>
>> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@...nwrt.org>
>> ---
>>  arch/powerpc/reloc.h              |  8 ++++++-
>>  configure                         |  4 ++++
>>  src/fenv/powerpc-sf/fenv.sub      |  1 +
>
> this is not enough for fenv.
>
> unsupported FE_* macros must be hidden in arch/powerpc/bits/fenv.h
> (see e.g. how arm does it), exceptions and non-nearest rounding
> are not supported for soft float.
>
> the rest looks ok to me.
>
>>  src/setjmp/powerpc-sf/longjmp.s   | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  src/setjmp/powerpc-sf/longjmp.sub |  1 +
>>  src/setjmp/powerpc-sf/setjmp.s    | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  src/setjmp/powerpc-sf/setjmp.sub  |  1 +
>>  7 files changed, 104 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>  create mode 100644 src/fenv/powerpc-sf/fenv.sub
>>  create mode 100644 src/setjmp/powerpc-sf/longjmp.s
>>  create mode 100644 src/setjmp/powerpc-sf/longjmp.sub
>>  create mode 100644 src/setjmp/powerpc-sf/setjmp.s
>>  create mode 100644 src/setjmp/powerpc-sf/setjmp.sub
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/reloc.h b/arch/powerpc/reloc.h
>> index aa5f8c9..7880fb5 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/reloc.h
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/reloc.h
>> @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
>> -#define LDSO_ARCH "powerpc"
>> +#ifdef _SOFT_FLOAT
>> +#define FP_SUFFIX "-sf"
>> +#else
>> +#define FP_SUFFIX ""
>> +#endif
>> +
>> +#define LDSO_ARCH "powerpc" FP_SUFFIX
>>
>>  #define TPOFF_K (-0x7000)
>>
>> diff --git a/configure b/configure
>> index beed406..1e94f06 100755
>> --- a/configure
>> +++ b/configure
>> @@ -522,6 +522,10 @@ trycppif "_MIPSEL || __MIPSEL || __MIPSEL__" "$t" && SUBARCH=${SUBARCH}el
>>  trycppif __mips_soft_float "$t" && SUBARCH=${SUBARCH}-sf
>>  fi
>>
>> +if test "$ARCH" = "powerpc" ; then
>> +trycppif _SOFT_FLOAT "$t" && SUBARCH=${SUBARCH}-sf
>> +fi
>> +
>>  test "$ARCH" = "microblaze" && trycppif __MICROBLAZEEL__ "$t" \
>>  && SUBARCH=${SUBARCH}el
>>
>> diff --git a/src/fenv/powerpc-sf/fenv.sub b/src/fenv/powerpc-sf/fenv.sub
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..9cafca5
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/src/fenv/powerpc-sf/fenv.sub
>> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
>> +../fenv.c
>> diff --git a/src/setjmp/powerpc-sf/longjmp.s b/src/setjmp/powerpc-sf/longjmp.s
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..fd61ae7
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/src/setjmp/powerpc-sf/longjmp.s
>> @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
>> +     .global _longjmp
>> +     .global longjmp
>> +     .type   _longjmp,@function
>> +     .type   longjmp,@function
>> +_longjmp:
>> +longjmp:
>> +# void longjmp(jmp_buf env, int val);
>> +# put val into return register and restore the env saved in setjmp
>> +# if val(r4) is 0, put 1 there.
>> +     # 0) move old return address into r0
>> +     lwz 0, 0(3)
>> +     # 1) put it into link reg
>> +     mtlr 0
>> +     #2 ) restore stack ptr
>> +     lwz 1, 4(3)
>> +     #3) restore control reg
>> +     lwz 0, 8(3)
>> +     mtcr 0
>> +     #4) restore r14-r31
>> +     lwz 14, 12(3)
>> +     lwz 15, 16(3)
>> +     lwz 16, 20(3)
>> +     lwz 17, 24(3)
>> +     lwz 18, 28(3)
>> +     lwz 19, 32(3)
>> +     lwz 20, 36(3)
>> +     lwz 21, 40(3)
>> +     lwz 22, 44(3)
>> +     lwz 23, 48(3)
>> +     lwz 24, 52(3)
>> +     lwz 25, 56(3)
>> +     lwz 26, 60(3)
>> +     lwz 27, 64(3)
>> +     lwz 28, 68(3)
>> +     lwz 29, 72(3)
>> +     lwz 30, 76(3)
>> +     lwz 31, 80(3)
>> +     #5) put val into return reg r3
>> +     mr 3, 4
>> +
>> +     #6) check if return value is 0, make it 1 in that case
>> +     cmpwi cr7, 4, 0
>> +     bne cr7, 1f
>> +     li 3, 1
>> +1:
>> +     blr
>> +
>> diff --git a/src/setjmp/powerpc-sf/longjmp.sub b/src/setjmp/powerpc-sf/longjmp.sub
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..e80331b
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/src/setjmp/powerpc-sf/longjmp.sub
>> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
>> +longjmp.s
>> diff --git a/src/setjmp/powerpc-sf/setjmp.s b/src/setjmp/powerpc-sf/setjmp.s
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..17c2663
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/src/setjmp/powerpc-sf/setjmp.s
>> @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
>> +     .global ___setjmp
>> +     .hidden ___setjmp
>> +     .global __setjmp
>> +     .global _setjmp
>> +     .global setjmp
>> +     .type   __setjmp,@function
>> +     .type   _setjmp,@function
>> +     .type   setjmp,@function
>> +___setjmp:
>> +__setjmp:
>> +_setjmp:
>> +setjmp:
>> +     # 0) store IP int 0, then into the jmpbuf pointed to by r3 (first arg)
>> +     mflr 0
>> +     stw 0, 0(3)
>> +     # 1) store reg1 (SP)
>> +     stw 1, 4(3)
>> +     # 2) store cr
>> +     mfcr 0
>> +     stw 0, 8(3)
>> +     # 3) store r14-31
>> +     stw 14, 12(3)
>> +     stw 15, 16(3)
>> +     stw 16, 20(3)
>> +     stw 17, 24(3)
>> +     stw 18, 28(3)
>> +     stw 19, 32(3)
>> +     stw 20, 36(3)
>> +     stw 21, 40(3)
>> +     stw 22, 44(3)
>> +     stw 23, 48(3)
>> +     stw 24, 52(3)
>> +     stw 25, 56(3)
>> +     stw 26, 60(3)
>> +     stw 27, 64(3)
>> +     stw 28, 68(3)
>> +     stw 29, 72(3)
>> +     stw 30, 76(3)
>> +     stw 31, 80(3)
>> +     # 4) set return value to 0
>> +     li 3, 0
>> +     # 5) return
>> +     blr
>> diff --git a/src/setjmp/powerpc-sf/setjmp.sub b/src/setjmp/powerpc-sf/setjmp.sub
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..b7ad221
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/src/setjmp/powerpc-sf/setjmp.sub
>> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
>> +setjmp.s
>> --
>> 2.2.2

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