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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, amateur <tianlei.zhao@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] TB Chaining NOT Reset on TLB Flush??
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:27:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200706161427.06630.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070616132206.GA7968@163.com>

> I read from the Qemu internal documentation this:
>     ``When MMU mappings change, only the chaining of the basic
>     blocks is reset (i.e. a basic block can no longer jump directly
>     to another one).''
>
> But when I read the code, I find that tlb_flush() doesn't reset the
> chaining between TBs. Is that the intended behaviour?? Won't that
> cause problems on guest context switch??

The internals documentation is out of date. TBs are only chained directly when 
both source and destination are on the same page.

Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-16 13:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-16 13:22 [Qemu-devel] TB Chaining NOT Reset on TLB Flush?? amateur
2007-06-16 13:27 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2007-06-17  3:11   ` amateur

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