Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] powerpc/bitops: Use immediate operand when possible

[Christophe Leroy]

Le 12/04/2021 à 23:54, Segher Boessenkool a écrit :
> Hi!
>
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 03:33:44PM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> > For clear bits, on 32 bits 'rlwinm' can be used instead or 'andc' for
> > when all bits to be cleared are consecutive.
>
> Also on 64-bits, as long as both the top and bottom bits are in the low
> 32-bit half (for 32 bit mode, it can wrap as well).

Yes. But here we are talking about clearing a few bits, all other ones must remain unchanged. An 
rlwinm on PPC64 will always clear the upper part, which is unlikely what we want.

> > For the time being only
> > handle the single bit case, which we detect by checking whether the
> > mask is a power of two.
>
> You could look at rs6000_is_valid_mask in GCC:
>    <https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=blob;f=gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.c;h=48b8efd732b251c059628096314848305deb0c0b;hb=HEAD#l11148>
> used by rs6000_is_valid_and_mask immediately after it.  You probably
> want to allow only rlwinm in your case, and please note this checks if
> something is a valid mask, not the inverse of a valid mask (as you
> want here).

This check looks more complex than what I need. It is used for both rlw... and rld..., and it 
calculates the operants. The only thing I need is to validate the mask.
I found a way: By anding the mask with the complement of itself rotated by left bits to 1, we 
identify the transitions from 0 to 1. If the result is a power of 2, it means there's only one 
transition so the mask is as expected.

So I did that in v2.


> So yes this is pretty involved :-)
>
> Your patch looks good btw.  But please use "n", not "i", as constraint?

Done.

Christophe