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From: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: blauwirbel@gmail.com, Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] tci: fix build breakage for target-sparc
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 07:22:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5073B499.7010905@weilnetz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50735184.10803@twiddle.net>

Am 09.10.2012 00:19, schrieb Richard Henderson:
> On 10/08/2012 01:45 PM, Michael Roth wrote:
>>   /* Alpha and SH4 user mode emulations and Softmmu call GETPC().
>>      For all others, GETPC remains undefined (which makes TCI a little faster. */
>> -# if defined(CONFIG_SOFTMMU) || defined(TARGET_ALPHA) || defined(TARGET_SH4)
>> +# if defined(CONFIG_SOFTMMU) || defined(TARGET_ALPHA) || defined(TARGET_SH4) \
>> +     || defined(TARGET_SPARC)
>>   extern uintptr_t tci_tb_ptr;
>>   #  define GETPC() tci_tb_ptr
> Why is this conditional?  All targets probably ought to be using it
> when raising runtime exceptions -- particularly fp exceptions.
>
>
> r~
>

See the comment: "which makes TCI a little faster".

When GETPC is undefined, tci.c saves an assignment
to a global variable per interpreted TCG code
which is a significant reduction.

Maybe there are better solutions, of course.

Regards
Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-09  5:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-08 20:45 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] tci: fix build breakage for target-sparc Michael Roth
2012-10-08 21:03 ` Stefan Weil
2012-10-08 22:19 ` Richard Henderson
2012-10-09  5:22   ` Stefan Weil [this message]
2012-10-19 19:32 ` Aurelien Jarno

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