Re: [CFT PATCH 0/4] target/i386/emulate: cleanups

[Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>]

Magnus, can you test this series on MSHV?

On Fri, May 02, 2025 at 11:48:37PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> These are some improvements to the x86 emulator that I wrote but have no
> way of testing (right now).
> 
> I tried to place them in order of importance so that, if something breaks,
> it is possible to commit a subset.  I tried to compile the resulting code
> on Linux but I have not run it.
> 
> Patch 1 is just to fix warnings on Linux.
> 
> Patch 2 is the most important, as it fixes some real horrors in the code.
> 
> Patch 3 makes flags handling use algorithms somewhat similar to TCG.
> It should fix issues with 64-bit ALU operations, but it's also the one
> where it's more likely to have a mistake.
> 
> Patch 4 is comparatively trivial, though I cannot exclude any screwups.
> 
> It should be possible to test this with both HVF and Hyper-V.
> 
> Paolo
> 
> Paolo Bonzini (4):
>   target/i386/emulate: fix target_ulong format strings
>   target/i386/emulate: stop overloading decode->op[N].ptr
>   target/i386/emulate: mostly rewrite flags handling
>   target/i386: remove lflags
> 
>  target/i386/cpu.h                |   6 -
>  target/i386/emulate/x86_decode.h |   9 +-
>  target/i386/emulate/x86_emu.h    |   8 +-
>  target/i386/emulate/x86_flags.h  |  12 +-
>  target/i386/emulate/x86_decode.c |  76 ++++++------
>  target/i386/emulate/x86_emu.c    | 125 +++++++++----------
>  target/i386/emulate/x86_flags.c  | 198 +++++++++++++------------------
>  7 files changed, 197 insertions(+), 237 deletions(-)
> 
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> 2.49.0
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