Re: [PULL 09/11] target/arm: add support for PMUv3 64-bit PMCCNTR in AArch32 mode

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> On Sun, 11 Aug 2024 at 22:36, Richard Henderson
> <richard.henderson@linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 8/10/24 04:08, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> > From: Alex Richardson <alexrichardson@google.com>
>> > diff --git a/target/arm/helper.c b/target/arm/helper.c
>> > index 8fb4b474e83..94900667c33 100644
>> > --- a/target/arm/helper.c
>> > +++ b/target/arm/helper.c
>> > @@ -5952,6 +5952,12 @@ static const ARMCPRegInfo v8_cp_reginfo[] = {
>> >         .access = PL1_RW, .accessfn = access_trap_aa32s_el1,
>> >         .writefn = sdcr_write,
>> >         .fieldoffset = offsetoflow32(CPUARMState, cp15.mdcr_el3) },
>> > +    { .name = "PMCCNTR", .state = ARM_CP_STATE_AA32,
>> > +      .type = ARM_CP_ALIAS | ARM_CP_IO | ARM_CP_64BIT,
>> > +      .cp = 15, .crm = 9, .opc1 = 0,
>> > +      .access = PL0_RW, .resetvalue = 0, .fgt = FGT_PMCCNTR_EL0,
>> > +      .readfn = pmccntr_read, .writefn = pmccntr_write,
>> > +      .accessfn = pmreg_access_ccntr },
>> >   };
>> >
>> >   /* These are present only when EL1 supports AArch32 */
>>
>> This fails testing:
>>
>> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/7551982466
>>
>> FAIL: duplicate register {'name': 'PMCCNTR', 'regnum': 96} vs {'name': 'PMCCNTR',
>> 'regnum': 79}
>> FAIL: counted all 219 registers in XML
>> FAIL: PMCCNTR 96 == 79 (xml)
>
> Hmm, not sure why that didn't get caught by my local testing
> or by my gitlab run -- does it only get run on an aarch64 host?

It will depend what your local GDB is like - a modern gdb-multiarch
should be fine but we do test for a minimum version to be able to probe
the supported architectures.

> Anyway, the registers do architecturally have the same name
> (they're the same register, just accessible via different
> pathways). What is our practice for this? Do we just give
> one of them a non-standard name?
>
> -- PMM

-- 
Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro