According to v-spec, tail agnostic behavior can be either kept as undisturbed or set elements' bits to all 1s. To distinguish the difference of tail policies, QEMU should be able to simulate the tail agnostic behavior as "set tail elements' bits to all 1s". An option 'rvv_ta_all_1s' is added to enable the behavior, it is default as disabled.
There are multiple possibility for agnostic elements according to v-spec. The main intent of this patch-set tries to add option that can distinguish between tail policies. Setting agnostic elements to all 1s makes things simple and allow QEMU to express this. We may explore other possibility of agnostic behavior by adding other options in the future. Please understand that this patch-set is limited. v2 updates: - Addressed comments from Weiwei Li - Added commit tail agnostic on load / store instructions (which I forgot to include into the patch-set) eopXD (13): target/riscv: rvv: Rename ambiguous esz target/riscv: rvv: Early exit when vstart >= vl target/riscv: rvv: Add tail agnostic for vv instructions target/riscv: rvv: Add tail agnostic for vector load / store instructions target/riscv: rvv: Add tail agnostic for vx, vvm, vxm instructions target/riscv: rvv: Add tail agnostic for vector integer shift instructions target/riscv: rvv: Add tail agnostic for vector integer comparison instructions target/riscv: rvv: Add tail agnostic for vector integer merge and move instructions target/riscv: rvv: Add tail agnostic for vector fix-point arithmetic instructions target/riscv: rvv: Add tail agnostic for vector floating-point instructions target/riscv: rvv: Add tail agnostic for vector reduction instructions target/riscv: rvv: Add tail agnostic for vector mask instructions target/riscv: rvv: Add tail agnostic for vector permutation instructions target/riscv/cpu.c | 1 + target/riscv/cpu.h | 2 + target/riscv/cpu_helper.c | 2 + target/riscv/insn_trans/trans_rvv.c.inc | 66 + target/riscv/internals.h | 5 +- target/riscv/translate.c | 2 + target/riscv/vector_helper.c | 1557 ++++++++++++++--------- 7 files changed, 1020 insertions(+), 615 deletions(-) -- 2.34.1