Re: [Qemu-devel] Weird behavior while using the instruction counter

[Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>]

> > I don't think this is correct. If we have chained TBs then the jump cache
> > entry may have been overwritten by a different TB.
> > It's also inefficient. If we didn't get here via cpu_exec_nocache then we
> > can invalidate a TB unnecessarily.
> >
> > Anywhere that uses tb_find_pc/cpu_restore_state is probably broken and
> > will need auditing for the problems I mentioned above.
>
> Ok. In the meanwhile, I'll stick with
>
> tb2 = env->tb_jmp_cache[tb_jmp_cache_hash_func(tb->pc)];
>     if (tb2 && tb2 != tb && tb2->pc == tb->pc && tb2->cs_base ==
> tb->cs_base && tb2->flags == tb->flags) {
>     tb_phys_invalidate(tb2, -1);
> }
>
> Unless, of course, you tell me there's something horribly wrong with this
> :-) Thank you,

If by "horribly wrong" you mean won't work reliably and is just making the bug 
a bit harder to find, then it's no better then the previous change.
It just avoids a few of the unnecessary (but harmless) invalidations.

Paul