From: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>,
Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Cc: gustavo.romero@linaro.org, Gustavo Romero <gromero@linux.ibm.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, groug@kaod.org, qemu-ppc@nongnu.org,
clg@kaod.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/19] target/ppc: add exclusive user write function for PMU regs
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 14:05:39 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7d1c4179-cf6c-accf-b9db-8e0dd8054d25@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YRHyk2n6xvTQ6Eyl@yekko>
On 8/9/21 5:29 PM, David Gibson wrote:
>> ctx->spr_cb = env->spr_cb;
>> + ctx->spr = env->spr;
>
> Eep... with that one line you're copying 8kiB of data into the context
> structure. That sounds undesirable.. especially since it look like
> you only check 8 bytes of it.
>
> Plus.. TBH, I'm a bit fuzzy on how the disascontext stuff works, but
> I'm not sure copying the stuff here is correct.
It isn't.
> I think instead you need to actually generate the instructions to read
> from MMCR0 and conditionally generate an exception if the permission
> bit isn't set.
Or copy exactly the bits you need from MMCR0 for the permission check into env->hflags, so
that you can later read them from ctx->flags. Bearing in mind that hflags has only 32
bits, 19 of them are currently in use.
r~
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-11 0:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-09 13:10 [PATCH 00/19] PMU-EBB support for PPC64 TCG Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-09 13:10 ` [PATCH 01/19] target/ppc: add exclusive Book3S PMU reg read/write functions Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-10 3:19 ` David Gibson
2021-08-10 13:06 ` Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-09 13:10 ` [PATCH 02/19] target/ppc: add exclusive user read function for PMU regs Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-10 3:21 ` David Gibson
2021-08-09 13:10 ` [PATCH 03/19] target/ppc: add exclusive user write " Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-10 3:29 ` David Gibson
2021-08-11 0:05 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2021-08-09 13:10 ` [PATCH 04/19] target/ppc: PMU Book3s basic insns count for pseries TCG Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-10 3:39 ` David Gibson
2021-08-10 13:24 ` Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-16 17:53 ` Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-17 2:59 ` David Gibson
2021-08-17 9:30 ` Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-18 5:48 ` David Gibson
2021-08-11 0:26 ` Richard Henderson
2021-08-09 13:10 ` [PATCH 05/19] target/ppc/pmu_book3s_helper.c: eliminate code repetition Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-10 3:40 ` David Gibson
2021-08-09 13:10 ` [PATCH 06/19] target/ppc/pmu_book3s_helper: enable PMC1-PMC4 events Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-10 3:42 ` David Gibson
2021-08-10 15:03 ` Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-10 23:08 ` Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-11 23:27 ` Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-12 1:52 ` David Gibson
2021-08-11 3:32 ` David Gibson
2021-08-09 13:10 ` [PATCH 07/19] target/ppc/pmu_book3s_helper.c: icount fine tuning Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-09 13:10 ` [PATCH 08/19] target/ppc/pmu_book3s_helper.c: do an actual cycles calculation Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-11 0:34 ` Richard Henderson
2021-08-09 13:10 ` [PATCH 09/19] PPC64/TCG: Implement 'rfebb' instruction Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-10 3:50 ` David Gibson
2021-08-10 19:32 ` Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-11 0:42 ` Richard Henderson
2021-08-11 3:36 ` David Gibson
2021-08-11 0:41 ` Richard Henderson
2021-08-09 13:10 ` [PATCH 10/19] target/ppc: PMU Event-Based exception support Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-10 3:55 ` David Gibson
2021-08-11 0:50 ` Richard Henderson
2021-08-09 13:10 ` [PATCH 11/19] target/ppc/excp_helper.c: POWERPC_EXCP_EBB adjustments Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-09 13:10 ` [PATCH 12/19] target/ppc/pmu_book3s_helper.c: enable PMC1 counter negative EBB Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-10 4:01 ` David Gibson
2021-08-10 20:26 ` Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-11 3:40 ` David Gibson
2021-08-11 11:18 ` Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-12 3:39 ` David Gibson
2021-08-12 4:45 ` Richard Henderson
2021-08-12 4:56 ` Richard Henderson
2021-08-12 10:17 ` Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-12 21:24 ` Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-13 0:35 ` Richard Henderson
2021-08-14 19:13 ` Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-15 19:24 ` Richard Henderson
2021-08-09 13:10 ` [PATCH 13/19] target/ppc/translate: PMU: handle setting of PMCs while running Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-10 4:06 ` David Gibson
2021-08-10 20:44 ` Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-11 3:46 ` David Gibson
2021-08-09 13:10 ` [PATCH 14/19] target/ppc/pmu_book3s_helper.c: add generic timeout helpers Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-10 4:09 ` David Gibson
2021-08-09 13:10 ` [PATCH 15/19] target/ppc/pmu_book3s_helper: enable counter negative for all PMCs Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-10 4:11 ` David Gibson
2021-08-10 21:02 ` Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-12 1:44 ` David Gibson
2021-08-09 13:10 ` [PATCH 16/19] target/ppc/pmu_book3s_helper: adding 0xFA event Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-10 4:13 ` David Gibson
2021-08-09 13:10 ` [PATCH 17/19] target/ppc/pmu_book3s_helper.c: add PMC14/PMC56 counter freeze bits Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-09 13:10 ` [PATCH 18/19] target/ppc/pmu_book3s_helper.c: add PM_CMPLU_STALL mock events Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-10 4:17 ` David Gibson
2021-08-10 19:48 ` Daniel Henrique Barboza
2021-08-11 3:37 ` David Gibson
2021-08-09 13:10 ` [PATCH 19/19] docs/specs: add PPC64 TCG PMU-EBB documentation Daniel Henrique Barboza
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