Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-*: Get rid of "PC advancement" trick

[Sergey Fedorov <serge.fdrv@gmail.com>]

On 12/16/15 20:03, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 12/15/2015 01:02 PM, Sergey Fedorov wrote:
>>> For that, I think it might be interesting to arrange for non-empty 
>>> TBs to
>>> exit prior to recognizing a breakpoint.  So that a breakpoint TB is 
>>> always
>>> just the one operation.  Except for the fact that "generate an 
>>> exception" has
>>> traditionally been a target-specific helper, we could almost make 
>>> the entire
>>> breakpoint generation be done in common code.
>>>
>>> I'd think something like a generic "must we end the TB now" 
>>> predicate would
>>> be the proper hook.  It would contain all of the usual stuff: 
>>> tcg_op_buf_full
>>> and checks for singlestep, but then add "is there a breakpoint at 
>>> the next pc".
>>
>> This could be a next step :)
>
> Or perhaps a first step, since the patch you posted doesn't seem to me 
> to be an improvement at all, merely a rearrangement of code.

I should give it a thought. The main motivation of this patch was to 
simply suppress useless disas log and the instruction length mismatch 
disas warning in case of an empty TB. The original reason was that there 
is a place in ARM translation with "PC advancement" tick missed.

Thanks,
Sergey