Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/6] use halted attribute for i386 too.

["Glauber Costa" <glommer@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org> wrote:
> Glauber Costa wrote:
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>> Unlike other architectures, i386 lacked a "halted" attribute, going
>> with a flag into hflags. By using the halted attribute, we can make
>> the code look like more other architectures, and simplify the code in
>> some instances. In this commit, we make the code for info_cpus simpler
>> in monitor.c
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> Good for the I386 halted attribute, as it was a mistake to put in in the
> hflags. For the memory, hflags should contain only parts of the CPU state
> known at translation time and should be equal to tb->flags. Most CPUs
> (including x86 !) do not follow this sane rule.

What about HF_GIF_MASK? It looks like another case of something that
is mistakenly put into hflags. What do you say?

> For cpu_info_ip, it would be simpler to return an uint64_t containing the
> PC. I don't think the sparc case with npc really matters.
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> Fabrice.
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