Re: [PATCH 0/7] plugins: Use unwind info for special gdb registers

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

Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> writes:

> Based-on: 20240404230611.21231-1-richard.henderson@linaro.org
> ("[PATCH v2 00/21] Rewrite plugin code generation")

I'm getting code conflicts w.r.t to the above (which is already merged?)
so it would be helpful to get a re-base.

>
> This is an attempt to fix
> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2208
> ("PC is not updated for each instruction in TCG plugins")

The issue raises another question about PCREL support which makes me
wonder if we need to deprecate get_vaddr at translation time and make it
a run time only value?

>
> I have only updated target/i386 so far, but basically all targets
> need updating for the new callbacks.  Extra points to anyone who
> sees how to avoid the extra code duplication.  :-)
>
>
> r~
>
>
> Richard Henderson (7):
>   tcg: Introduce INDEX_op_plugin_pc
>   accel/tcg: Set CPUState.plugin_ra before all plugin callbacks
>   accel/tcg: Return the TranslationBlock from cpu_unwind_state_data
>   plugins: Introduce TCGCPUOps callbacks for mid-tb register reads
>   target/i386: Split out gdb-internal.h
>   target/i386: Introduce cpu_compute_eflags_ccop
>   target/i386: Implement TCGCPUOps for plugin register reads
>
>  include/exec/cpu-common.h     |  9 +++--
>  include/hw/core/cpu.h         |  1 +
>  include/hw/core/tcg-cpu-ops.h | 13 +++++++
>  include/tcg/tcg-op-common.h   |  1 +
>  include/tcg/tcg-opc.h         |  1 +
>  target/i386/cpu.h             |  2 +
>  target/i386/gdb-internal.h    | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  accel/tcg/plugin-gen.c        | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++---
>  accel/tcg/translate-all.c     |  9 +++--
>  plugins/api.c                 | 36 +++++++++++++++++-
>  target/i386/gdbstub.c         |  1 +
>  target/i386/helper.c          |  6 ++-
>  target/i386/tcg/cc_helper.c   | 10 +++++
>  target/i386/tcg/tcg-cpu.c     | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  tcg/tcg-op.c                  |  5 +++
>  tcg/tcg.c                     | 10 +++++
>  16 files changed, 258 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 target/i386/gdb-internal.h

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Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro