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    selftests/powerpc: Replace stxvx and lxvx with stxvd2x/lxvd2x · 605df8d6
    Cyril Bur authored
    On POWER8 (ISA 2.07) lxvx and stxvx are defined to be extended mnemonics
    of lxvd2x and stxvd2x. For POWER9 (ISA 3.0) the HW architects in their
    infinite wisdom made lxvx and stxvx instructions in their own right.
    
    POWER9 aware GCC will use the POWER9 instruction for lxvx and stxvx
    causing these selftests to fail on POWER8. Further compounding the
    issue, because of the way -mvsx works it will cause the power9
    instructions to be used regardless of -mcpu=power8 to GCC or -mpower8 to
    AS.
    
    The safest way to address the problem for now is to not use the extended
    mnemonic. We don't care how the CPU loads the values from memory since
    the tests only performs register comparisons, so using stdvd2x/lxvd2x
    does not impact the test.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarCyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
    Acked-by: Balbir Singh<bsingharora@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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