The PRU architecture provides single-cycle access to GPIO pins via
special designated CPU registers - R30 and R31. These two registers can
of course be accessed in C code using inline assembly, but that can be
intimidating to users.
The TI proprietary compiler [1] can expose these I/O registers as global
volatile registers:
volatile register unsigned int __R31;
Consequently, accessing them in user programs is as straightforward as
using a regular global variable:
__R31 |= (1 << 2);
Unfortunately, global volatile registers are not supported by GCC [2].
I decided to implement convenient access to __R30 and __R31 using a new
named address space:
extern volatile __regio_symbol unsigned int __R30;
Unlike global registers, volatile global memory variables are well
supported in GCC. Memory writes and reads to the __regio_symbol address
space are converted to writes and reads to R30 and R31 CPU registers.
The declared variable name determines which of the two registers it is
representing.
With an ifdef for the __R30/__R31 declarations, user programs can now
be source-compatible with both TI and GCC toolchains.
* config/pru/constraints.md (Rrio): New constraint.
* config/pru/predicates.md (regio_operand): New predicate.
* config/pru/pru-pragma.c (pru_register_pragmas): Register
the __regio_symbol address space.
* config/pru/pru-protos.h (pru_symref2ioregno): Declaration.
* config/pru/pru.c (pru_symref2ioregno): New helper function.
(pru_legitimate_address_p): Remove.
(pru_addr_space_legitimate_address_p): Use the address space
aware hook variant.
(pru_nongeneric_pointer_addrspace): New helper function.
(pru_insert_attributes): New function to validate __regio_symbol
usage.
(TARGET_INSERT_ATTRIBUTES): New macro.
(TARGET_LEGITIMATE_ADDRESS_P): Remove.
(TARGET_ADDR_SPACE_LEGITIMATE_ADDRESS_P): New macro.
* config/pru/pru.h (enum reg_class): Add REGIO_REGS class.
* config/pru/pru.md (*regio_readsi): New pattern to read I/O
registers.
(*regio_nozext_writesi): New pattern to write to I/O registers.
(*regio_zext_write_r30<EQS0:mode>): Ditto.
* doc/extend.texi: Document the new PRU Named Address Space.
gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gcc.target/pru/regio-as-pointer.c: New negative test.
* gcc.target/pru/regio-as-pointer-2.c: New negative test.
* gcc.target/pru/regio-decl-2.c: New negative test.
* gcc.target/pru/regio-decl-3.c: New negative test.
* gcc.target/pru/regio-decl-4.c: New negative test.
* gcc.target/pru/regio-decl.c: New negative test.
* gcc.target/pru/regio-di.c: New negative test.
* gcc.target/pru/regio-hi.c: New negative test.
* gcc.target/pru/regio-qi.c: New negative test.
* gcc.target/pru/regio.c: New test.
* gcc.target/pru/regio.h: New helper header.