Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v6 08/14] target-arm: Add atomic_clear helper for CLREX insn

[alvise rigo <a.rigo@virtualopensystems.com>]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 6:13 PM, Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> Alvise Rigo <a.rigo@virtualopensystems.com> writes:
>
>> Add a simple helper function to emulate the CLREX instruction.
>
> And now I see ;-)
>
> I suspect this should be merged with the other helpers as a generic helper.

Agreed.

>
>>
>> Suggested-by: Jani Kokkonen <jani.kokkonen@huawei.com>
>> Suggested-by: Claudio Fontana <claudio.fontana@huawei.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Alvise Rigo <a.rigo@virtualopensystems.com>
>> ---
>>  target-arm/helper.h    | 2 ++
>>  target-arm/op_helper.c | 6 ++++++
>>  target-arm/translate.c | 1 +
>>  3 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/target-arm/helper.h b/target-arm/helper.h
>> index c2a85c7..37cec49 100644
>> --- a/target-arm/helper.h
>> +++ b/target-arm/helper.h
>> @@ -532,6 +532,8 @@ DEF_HELPER_2(dc_zva, void, env, i64)
>>  DEF_HELPER_FLAGS_2(neon_pmull_64_lo, TCG_CALL_NO_RWG_SE, i64, i64, i64)
>>  DEF_HELPER_FLAGS_2(neon_pmull_64_hi, TCG_CALL_NO_RWG_SE, i64, i64, i64)
>>
>> +DEF_HELPER_1(atomic_clear, void, env)
>> +
>>  #ifdef TARGET_AARCH64
>>  #include "helper-a64.h"
>>  #endif
>> diff --git a/target-arm/op_helper.c b/target-arm/op_helper.c
>> index 6cd54c8..5a67557 100644
>> --- a/target-arm/op_helper.c
>> +++ b/target-arm/op_helper.c
>> @@ -50,6 +50,12 @@ static int exception_target_el(CPUARMState *env)
>>      return target_el;
>>  }
>>
>> +void HELPER(atomic_clear)(CPUARMState *env)
>> +{
>> +    ENV_GET_CPU(env)->excl_protected_range.begin = -1;
>
> Is there not a defined reset value EXCLUSIVE_RESET_ADDR we should use here?

Yes, I will move the EXCLUSIVE_RESET_ADDR definition somewhere else in
order to include it in this file.

>
>> +    ENV_GET_CPU(env)->ll_sc_context = false;
>> +}
>> +
>>  uint32_t HELPER(neon_tbl)(CPUARMState *env, uint32_t ireg, uint32_t def,
>>                            uint32_t rn, uint32_t maxindex)
>>  {
>> diff --git a/target-arm/translate.c b/target-arm/translate.c
>> index e88d8a3..e0362e0 100644
>> --- a/target-arm/translate.c
>> +++ b/target-arm/translate.c
>> @@ -7514,6 +7514,7 @@ static void gen_load_exclusive(DisasContext *s, int rt, int rt2,
>>  static void gen_clrex(DisasContext *s)
>>  {
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_TCG_USE_LDST_EXCL
>> +    gen_helper_atomic_clear(cpu_env);
>>  #else
>>      tcg_gen_movi_i64(cpu_exclusive_addr, -1);
>>  #endif
>
>
> --
> Alex Bennée