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From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>,
	Peter Crosthwaite <crosthwaite.peter@gmail.com>,
	Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
	"open list:Overall" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] tcg: handle EXCP_ATOMIC exception properly
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 14:37:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vasiw1ql.fsf@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3f702266-1ac2-57c5-e0f8-3dec07b450d2@redhat.com>


Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:

> On 10/02/2017 13:33, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> That said for TCG system emulation EXCP_ATOMIC is currently broken with
>> respect to debugging. However for the initial guests/host combination of
>> ARMv7/8 on x86_64 we don't need the fallback with pretty much 99% of
>> deployed hosts. How about the following:
>>
>>   - drop Pranith's patch for the current MTTCG series
>>   - replace with an error/abort on EXCP_ATOMIC
>
> Don't even replace it? :)

I guess - the failure mode is only when we single step? Should we not
try to emit a warning like we do for the mismatched MOs?

>
> Paolo
>
>>   - proceed with merge as plan
>>   - tackle the BQL lock next (along with more MTTCG guest/targets enablement)


--
Alex Bennée

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-10 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-10  1:45 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] tcg: handle EXCP_ATOMIC exception properly Pranith Kumar
2017-02-10  4:54 ` Pranith Kumar
2017-02-10 11:34 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-02-10 12:18   ` Alex Bennée
2017-02-10 12:29     ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-02-10 12:57       ` Alex Bennée
2017-02-10 13:59       ` Pranith Kumar
2017-02-10 12:13 ` Alex Bennée
2017-02-10 12:15   ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-02-10 12:33     ` Alex Bennée
2017-02-10 13:12       ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-02-10 14:37         ` Alex Bennée [this message]
2017-02-10 14:44           ` Paolo Bonzini

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