5 As of Jan 2014 the trunk contains a port to AArch64 ARMv8 -- loosely,
6 the 64-bit ARM architecture. Currently it supports integer and FP
7 instructions and can run anything generated by gcc-4.8.2 -O3. The
8 port is under active development.
10 Current limitations, as of mid-May 2014.
12 * limited support of vector (SIMD) instructions. Initial target is
13 support for instructions created by gcc-4.8.2 -O3
14 (via autovectorisation). This is complete.
16 * Integration with the built in GDB server:
17 - works ok (breakpoint, attach to a process blocked in a syscall, ...)
19 arm64 xml register description files (allowing shadow registers
21 cpsr transfer to/from gdb to be looked at (see also arm equivalent code)
23 * limited syscall support
25 There has been extensive testing of the baseline simulation of integer
26 and FP instructions. Memcheck is also believed to work, at least for
27 small examples. Other tools appear to at least not crash when running
30 Enough syscalls and instructions are supported for substantial
31 programs to work. Firefox 26 is able to start up and quit. The noise
32 level from Memcheck is low enough to make it practical to use for real
39 You could probably build it directly on a target OS, using the normal
42 ./autogen.sh ; ./configure --prefix=.. ; make ; make install
44 Development so far was however done by cross compiling, viz:
46 export CC=aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc
47 export LD=aarch64-linux-gnu-ld
48 export AR=aarch64-linux-gnu-ar
51 ./configure --prefix=`pwd`/Inst --host=aarch64-unknown-linux \
56 Doing this assumes that the install path (`pwd`/Inst) is valid on
57 both host and target, which isn't normally the case. To avoid
58 this limitation, do instead:
60 ./configure --prefix=/install/path/on/target \
61 --host=aarch64-unknown-linux \
64 make -j4 install DESTDIR=/a/temp/dir/on/host
65 # and then copy the contents of DESTDIR to the target.
67 See README.android for more examples of cross-compile building.
70 Implementation tidying-up/TODO notes
71 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
73 UnwindStartRegs -- what should that contain?
76 vki-arm64-linux.h: vki_sigaction_base
77 I really don't think that __vki_sigrestore_t sa_restorer
78 should be present. Adding it surely puts sa_mask at a wrong
79 offset compared to (kernel) reality. But not having it causes
80 compilation of m_signals.c to fail in hard to understand ways,
81 so adding it temporarily.
84 m_trampoline.S: what's the unexecutable-insn value? 0xFFFFFFFF
85 is there at the moment, but 0x00000000 is probably what it should be.
86 Also, fix indentation/tab-vs-space stuff
89 ./include/vki/vki-arm64-linux.h: uses __uint128_t. Should change
90 it to __vki_uint128_t, but what's the defn of that?
93 m_debuginfo/priv_storage.h: need proper defn of DiCfSI
96 readdwarf.c: is this correct?
97 #elif defined(VGP_arm64_linux)
98 # define FP_REG 29 //???
99 # define SP_REG 31 //???
100 # define RA_REG_DEFAULT 30 //???
104 re linux-3.10.5/include/uapi/asm-generic/sembuf.h
105 I'd say the amd64 version has padding it shouldn't have. Check?
108 syswrap-linux.c run_a_thread_NORETURN assembly sections
109 seems like tst->os_state.exitcode has word type
110 in which case the ppc64_linux use of lwz to read it, is wrong
113 syswrap-linux.c ML_(do_fork_clone)
114 assuming that VGP_arm64_linux is the same as VGP_arm_linux here
117 dispatch-arm64-linux.S: FIXME: set up FP control state before
118 entering generated code. Also fix screwy indentation.
121 dispatcher-ery general: what's a good (predictor-friendly) way to
122 branch to a register?
125 in vki-arm64-scnums.h
126 //#if __BITS_PER_LONG == 64 && !defined(__SYSCALL_COMPAT)
127 Probably want to reenable that and clean up accordingly
130 putIRegXXorZR: figure out a way that the computed value is actually
131 used, so as to keep any memory reads that might generate it, alive.
132 (else the simulation can lose exceptions). At least, for writes to
133 the zero register generated by loads .. or .. can anything other
134 integer instructions, that write to a register, cause exceptions?
137 loads/stores: generate stack alignment checks as necessary
140 fix barrier insns: ISB, DMB
143 fix atomic loads/stores
146 FMADD/FMSUB/FNMADD/FNMSUB: generate and use the relevant fused
147 IROps so as to avoid double rounding
150 ARM64Instr_Call getRegUsage: re-check relative to what
151 getAllocableRegs_ARM64 makes available
154 Make dispatch-arm64-linux.S save any callee-saved Q regs
155 I think what is required is to save D8-D15 and nothing more than that.
158 wrapper for __NR3264_fstat -- correct?
161 PRE(sys_clone): get rid of references to vki_modify_ldt_t and the
162 definition of it in vki-arm64-linux.h. Ditto for 32 bit arm.
165 sigframe-arm64-linux.c: build_sigframe: references to nonexistent
166 siguc->uc_mcontext.trap_no, siguc->uc_mcontext.error_code have been
167 replaced by zero. Also in synth_ucontext.
171 uregs.pstate = LibVEX_GuestARM64_get_nzcv(vex); /* is this correct? */
172 Is that remotely correct?
175 host_arm64_defs.c: emit_ARM64INstr:
176 ARM64in_VDfromX and ARM64in_VQfromXX: use simple top-half zeroing
177 MOVs to vector registers instead of INS Vd.D[0], Xreg, to avoid false
178 dependencies on the top half of the register. (Or at least check
179 the semantics of INS Vd.D[0] to see if it zeroes out the top.)
182 preferredVectorSubTypeFromSize: review perf effects and decide
183 on a types-for-subparts policy
186 fold_IRExpr_Unop: add a reduction rule for this
187 1Sto64(CmpNEZ64( Or64(GET:I64(1192),GET:I64(1184)) ))
188 vis 1Sto64(CmpNEZ64(x)) --> CmpwNEZ64(x)
191 check insn selection for memcheck-only primops:
192 Left64 CmpwNEZ64 V128to64 V128HIto64 1Sto64 CmpNEZ64 CmpNEZ32
193 widen_z_8_to_64 1Sto32 Left32 32HLto64 CmpwNEZ32 CmpNEZ8
196 isel: get rid of various cases where zero is put into a register
197 and just use xzr instead. Especially for CmpNEZ64/32. And for
198 writing zeroes into the CC thunk fields.
201 /* Keep this list in sync with that in iselNext below */
202 /* Keep this list in sync with that for Ist_Exit above */
203 uh .. they are not in sync
207 imm64 x23, 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFA0
208 17 F4 9F D2 F7 FF BF F2 F7 FF DF F2 F7 FF FF F2
211 valgrind.h: fix VALGRIND_ALIGN_STACK/VALGRIND_RESTORE_STACK,
212 also add CFI annotations
215 could possibly bring r29 into use, which be useful as it is
219 ubfm/sbfm etc: special case cases that are simple shifts, as iropt
220 can't always simplify the general-case IR to a shift in such cases.
223 LDP,STP (immediate, simm7) (FP&VEC)
224 should zero out hi parts of dst registers in the LDP case
227 DUP insns: use Iop_Dup8x16, Iop_Dup16x8, Iop_Dup32x4
228 rather than doing it "by hand"
231 Any place where ZeroHI64ofV128 is used in conjunction with
232 FP vector IROps: find a way to make sure that arithmetic on
233 the upper half of the values is "harmless."
236 math_MINMAXV: use real Iop_Cat{Odd,Even}Lanes ops rather than
240 chainXDirect_ARM64: use direct jump forms when possible