From: "Cédric Le Goater" <clg@kaod.org>
To: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: peter.maydell@linaro.org, "open list:ARM TCG CPUs" <qemu-arm@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] target/arm: drop CF_LAST_IO/dc->condjump check
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 18:28:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e52582e-a010-5426-a645-5046d2eb0f32@kaod.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210416154908.21673-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
On 4/16/21 5:49 PM, Alex Bennée wrote:
> This is a left over erroneous check from the days front-ends handled
> io start/end themselves. Regardless just because IO could be performed
> on the last instruction doesn't obligate the front end to do so.
>
> This fixes an abort faced by the aspeed execute-in-place support which
> will necessarily trigger this state (even before the one-shot
> CF_LAST_IO fix). The test still seems to hang once it attempts to boot
> the Linux kernel but I suspect this is an unrelated issue with icount
> and the timer handling code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> Cc: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Tested-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Thanks,
C.
> ---
> target/arm/translate.c | 5 -----
> 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/target/arm/translate.c b/target/arm/translate.c
> index 62b1c2081b..7103da2d7a 100644
> --- a/target/arm/translate.c
> +++ b/target/arm/translate.c
> @@ -9199,11 +9199,6 @@ static void arm_tr_tb_stop(DisasContextBase *dcbase, CPUState *cpu)
> {
> DisasContext *dc = container_of(dcbase, DisasContext, base);
>
> - if (tb_cflags(dc->base.tb) & CF_LAST_IO && dc->condjmp) {
> - /* FIXME: This can theoretically happen with self-modifying code. */
> - cpu_abort(cpu, "IO on conditional branch instruction");
> - }
> -
> /* At this stage dc->condjmp will only be set when the skipped
> instruction was a conditional branch or trap, and the PC has
> already been written. */
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-16 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-16 15:49 [RFC PATCH] target/arm: drop CF_LAST_IO/dc->condjump check Alex Bennée
2021-04-16 16:06 ` Peter Maydell
2021-04-16 16:07 ` Richard Henderson
2021-04-16 16:28 ` Cédric Le Goater [this message]
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