Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] target-mips: Misaligned Memory Accesses for MSA

[Leon Alrae <leon.alrae@imgtec.com>]

On 01/05/2015 16:43, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> +#if !defined(CONFIG_USER_ONLY)
>> +static bool cpu_mips_validate_msa_block_access(CPUMIPSState *env,
>> +                                        target_ulong address, int df, int rw)
>> +{
>> +    int i;
>> +    for (i = 0; i < DF_ELEMENTS(df); i++) {
>> +        if (!cpu_mips_validate_access(env, address + (i << df),
>> +            address, (1 << df), rw)) {
>> +            CPUState *cs = CPU(mips_env_get_cpu(env));
>> +            helper_raise_exception_err(env, cs->exception_index,
>> +                                       env->error_code);
> 
> I was wondering if this would get the correct PC in the exception
> case, but we always call save_cpu_state() before calling the
> msa_ld/st_df helpers, so it will.

FYI, quite recently Richard suggested a clean-up for this (and all other
MIPS load/store instructions using helpers), so save_cpu_state()
wouldn’t be required. I haven’t got round to it yet but sounds like a
nice improvement.

Leon