Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target/hppa: Check for page crossings in use_goto_tb

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

On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 at 19:00, Richard Henderson
<richard.henderson@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> We got away with eliding this check when target/hppa was user-only,
> but missed adding this check when adding system support.
>
> Fixes an early crash in the HP-UX 11 installer.
>
> Reported-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
> ---
>  target/hppa/translate.c | 10 ++++------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/target/hppa/translate.c b/target/hppa/translate.c
> index dc5636fe94..6c815e05c2 100644
> --- a/target/hppa/translate.c
> +++ b/target/hppa/translate.c
> @@ -816,12 +816,10 @@ static bool gen_illegal(DisasContext *ctx)
>
>  static bool use_goto_tb(DisasContext *ctx, target_ureg dest)
>  {
> -    /* Suppress goto_tb in the case of single-steping and IO.  */
> -    if ((tb_cflags(ctx->base.tb) & CF_LAST_IO)
> -        || ctx->base.singlestep_enabled) {
> -        return false;
> -    }
> -    return true;
> +    /* Suppress goto_tb for page crossing, IO, or single-steping.  */

"stepping"

> +    return !(((ctx->base.pc_first ^ dest) & TARGET_PAGE_MASK)
> +             || (tb_cflags(ctx->base.tb) & CF_LAST_IO)
> +             || ctx->base.singlestep_enabled);
>  }

I note that (a) this isn't the way every other port phrases
the "same page" check -- they generally use something like
 (ctx->base.tb->pc & TARGET_PAGE_MASK) == (dest & TARGET_PAGE_MASK)
and (b) the other ports generally keep that check inside an
ifndef CONFIG_USER_ONLY.

>
>  /* If the next insn is to be nullified, and it's on the same page,
> --
> 2.17.2

thanks
-- PMM