[edk2-devel] Neon instruction in ARM fails

[Gabriel Carvalho de Faria via groups.io]

Greetings!

We are trying to implement an .efi application that validates some ARM architecture instructions.

For this application, an assembly code was created, with the help of AsmMacroIoLibV8, present in edk2. The implementation can be seen below.

> 
> #include <AsmMacroIoLibV8.h>
> 
> .data
> 
> OneHundredSeventy: .word 0b0000000010101010
> 
> Filter32bit: .word 4294967295
> 
> .bss
> 
> EmptyVar: .space 64
> 
> .text
> 
> ASM_FUNC(SQXTNInstruction)
> 
> ldr       x1,=OneHundredSeventy
> ldr       x2,=EmptyVar
> mov    x3,#2147483647
> mov    x5,Filter32bit       // The error happens here
> 
> LD1        {V0.16B},[x1]
> SQXTN   V1.2S, V0.2D
> MOV      x2,V1.D[0]
> 
> and     x4,x2,x5
> 
> cmp    x3,x4
> b.ne    Error
> b         End
> 
> Error:
> mov x0,x4
> ret
> End:
> mov x0,#0
> ret
> 

When using the value defined for Filter32bit, as it is in the code, the return of this instruction is 1 (error). However, when directly loading the hardcoded value into register x5, the return is 0 (success).

This behavior happened on a machine with a Snapdragon(TM) 8cx @ 2.84 GHz - QUALCOMM processor.

We would like to know if there is any bug in the implementation or if there is an explanation for this behavior.

Best regards!
Gabriel.


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