Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 4/4] ppc: remove excessive logging

[Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>]

On 11.07.14 20:22, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 11 July 2014 19:15, Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se> wrote:
>> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote on 2014/07/11 19:14:25:
>>> On 11 July 2014 16:18, Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se>
>> wrote:
>>>> ppc logs every type of Invalid instruction. This generates a lot
>>> Rather than just deleting this EXCP_DUMP, I would suggest
>>> changing the EXCP_DUMP macro so  it only does anything
>>> if the user has passed the "-d int" debug logging flag:
>> I don't think ppc wants that. They want unconditionally
>> debug on to get relevant bug reports. This one is getting in the
>> way of normal operations so I think it should be deleted.
> If the PPC maintainers want that behaviour then they need
> to defend it. No other architecture's linux-user code spews
> junk to stderr for exceptions, and PPC shouldn't either.
> The debug log switches are exactly for allowing us to
> say "please turn on debug logging" when bugs are reported,
> and those are what we should use.

I agree - and it's how we behave in system emulation mode already :).

What do the other platforms do on illegal instructions during user mode? 
Any way we can get consistency across the board?


Alex