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[v2,3/5] target/arm/translate.h: expand comment on DISAS_EXIT

Message ID 20170710192128.9048-4-alex.bennee@linaro.org
State Superseded
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Series arm: fixes for eret, isb and DISAS_UPDATE handling | expand

Commit Message

Alex Bennée July 10, 2017, 7:21 p.m. UTC
We already have an exit condition, DISAS_UPDATE which will exit the
run-loop. Expand on the difference with DISAS_EXIT in the comments.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>

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 target/arm/translate.h | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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2.13.0

Comments

Richard Henderson July 10, 2017, 7:52 p.m. UTC | #1
On 07/10/2017 09:21 AM, Alex Bennée wrote:
> We already have an exit condition, DISAS_UPDATE which will exit the

> run-loop. Expand on the difference with DISAS_EXIT in the comments.

> 

> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée<alex.bennee@linaro.org>

> ---

>   target/arm/translate.h | 5 ++++-

>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)


Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>



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diff --git a/target/arm/translate.h b/target/arm/translate.h
index 15d383d9af..12fd79ba8e 100644
--- a/target/arm/translate.h
+++ b/target/arm/translate.h
@@ -140,7 +140,10 @@  static void disas_set_insn_syndrome(DisasContext *s, uint32_t syn)
  */
 #define DISAS_BX_EXCRET 11
 /* For instructions which want an immediate exit to the main loop,
- * as opposed to attempting to use lookup_and_goto_ptr.
+ * as opposed to attempting to use lookup_and_goto_ptr. Unlike
+ * DISAS_UPDATE this doesn't write the PC on exiting the translation
+ * loop so you need to ensure something (gen_a64_set_pc_im or runtime
+ * helper) has done so before we reach return from cpu_tb_exec.
  */
 #define DISAS_EXIT 12