Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/2] target/arm: A32, T32: Create Instruction Syndromes for Data Aborts

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On 4 February 2017 at 14:31, Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 05:48:55PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> Add support for generating the ISS (Instruction Specific Syndrome)
>> for Data Abort exceptions taken from AArch32. These syndromes are
>> used by hypervisors for example to trap and emulate memory accesses.
>>
>> This is the equivalent for AArch32 guests of the work done for AArch64
>> guests in commit aaa1f954d4cab243.

>> +static void disas_set_insn_syndrome(DisasContext *s, uint32_t syn)
>> +{
>> +    /* We don't need to save all of the syndrome so we mask and shift
>> +     * out uneeded bits to help the sleb128 encoder do a better job.
>> +     */
>> +    syn &= ARM_INSN_START_WORD2_MASK;
>> +    syn >>= ARM_INSN_START_WORD2_SHIFT;
>> +
>> +    /* We check and clear insn_start_idx to catch multiple updates.  */
>> +    assert(s->insn_start_idx != 0);
>> +    tcg_set_insn_param(s->insn_start_idx, 2, syn);
>> +    s->insn_start_idx = 0;
>> +}
>
> Could we move this into translate.h and share it with translate-a64.c?

Sure; I'll just squash that change into this patch and put the
results into the target-arm queue, rather than burdening the
list with a v3 respin, if that's OK.

thanks
-- PMM