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target/hppa: Move iaoq registers and thus reduce generated code size
On hppa the Instruction Address Offset Queue (IAOQ) registers specifies
the next to-be-executed instructions addresses. Each generated TB writes those
registers at least once, so those registers are used heavily in generated
code.

Looking at the generated assembly, for a x86-64 host this code
to write the address $0x7ffe826f into iaoq_f is generated:
0x7f73e8000184:  c7 85 d4 01 00 00 6f 82  movl     $0x7ffe826f, 0x1d4(%rbp)
0x7f73e800018c:  fe 7f
0x7f73e800018e:  c7 85 d8 01 00 00 73 82  movl     $0x7ffe8273, 0x1d8(%rbp)
0x7f73e8000196:  fe 7f

With the trivial change, by moving the variables iaoq_f and iaoq_b to
the top of struct CPUArchState, the offset to %rbp is reduced (from
0x1d4 to 0), which allows the x86-64 tcg to generate 3 bytes less of
generated code per move instruction:
0x7fc1e800018c:  c7 45 00 6f 82 fe 7f     movl     $0x7ffe826f, (%rbp)
0x7fc1e8000193:  c7 45 04 73 82 fe 7f     movl     $0x7ffe8273, 4(%rbp)

Overall this is a reduction of generated code (not a reduction of
number of instructions).
A test run with checks the generated code size by running "/bin/ls"
with qemu-user shows that the code size shrinks from 1616767 to 1569273
bytes, which is ~97% of the former size.

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
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hdeller committed Aug 3, 2023
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5 changes: 3 additions & 2 deletions target/hppa/cpu.h
Expand Up @@ -168,6 +168,9 @@ typedef struct {
} hppa_tlb_entry;

typedef struct CPUArchState {
target_ureg iaoq_f; /* front */
target_ureg iaoq_b; /* back, aka next instruction */

target_ureg gr[32];
uint64_t fr[32];
uint64_t sr[8]; /* stored shifted into place for gva */
Expand All @@ -186,8 +189,6 @@ typedef struct CPUArchState {
target_ureg psw_cb; /* in least significant bit of next nibble */
target_ureg psw_cb_msb; /* boolean */

target_ureg iaoq_f; /* front */
target_ureg iaoq_b; /* back, aka next instruction */
uint64_t iasq_f;
uint64_t iasq_b;

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