Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 8/9] target-arm: A64: Create Instruction Syndromes for Data Aborts

["Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 07:13:32PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 12 February 2016 at 14:34, Edgar E. Iglesias
> <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com> wrote:
> > From: "Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@xilinx.com>
> >
> > Add support for generating the instruction syndrome for Data Aborts.
> > These syndromes are used by hypervisors for example to trap and emulate
> > memory accesses.
> >
> > We save the decoded data out-of-band with the TBs at translation time.
> > When exceptions hit, the extra data attached to the TB is used to
> > recreate the state needed to encode instruction syndromes.
> > This avoids the need to emit moves with every load/store.
> 
> I think this patch also would be simpler if the encoded info
> put in with the TBs was just the syndrome register, rather
> than some other encoding.

My first try was to only pass the bits needed for the iss
(i.e not the full data abort syndrome). We don't have all
the info needed at translation time to create the full
syndrome (e.g stage2 trap? stage2 trap while stage1 PTW, etc).

But we could maybe create as much of the data abort syndrome
as possible at translation time and then have the exception
handling code add the missing bits. We can then pass the
preliminary syndrome from translation time to exception time
in the std syndrome format. I can have a look and see what I
can do if that makes more sense.

Thanks,
Edgar