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From: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
To: Anup Patel <apatel@ventanamicro.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
	Alistair Francis <Alistair.Francis@wdc.com>,
	Sagar Karandikar <sagark@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
	Atish Patra <atishp@atishpatra.org>,
	Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>,
	qemu-riscv@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] target/riscv: Ensure opcode is saved for every instruction
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 07:58:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <077c6111-6b1f-bc36-9ada-7e00f672fd53@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK9=C2Ut-_6_ARpVFKcjeLgau2eqUL5Cbu3FD96hZ-EFD7RC5Q@mail.gmail.com>

On 7/26/22 21:06, Anup Patel wrote:
> I see that decode_save_opc() only saves opcode in an array
> through tcg_set_insn_start_param(). Which brings me to the
> question about how much are we saving by distributing
> decode_save_opc() calls ?

It's not about tcg_set_insn_start_param(), but later when it is stored into the 
TranslationBlock -- see encode_search() in accel/tcg/translate-all.c.

> If we distribute decode_save_opc() calls then the code becomes
> fragile for future changes and we will miss adding decode_save_opc()
> for some new extensions.

Perhaps the several percentage points of data savings are not significant enough to worry 
about.


r~


      reply	other threads:[~2022-07-27 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-27  3:25 [PATCH] target/riscv: Ensure opcode is saved for every instruction Anup Patel
2022-07-27  3:54 ` Richard Henderson
2022-07-27  4:06   ` Anup Patel
2022-07-27 14:58     ` Richard Henderson [this message]

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