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[24/26] translator: always pair plugin_gen_insn_{start, end} calls

Message ID 20230110173922.265055-25-alex.bennee@linaro.org
State Superseded
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Series current maintainer trees (testing/semihosting/plugins) | expand

Commit Message

Alex Bennée Jan. 10, 2023, 5:39 p.m. UTC 
From: Emilio Cota <cota@braap.org>

Related: #1381

Signed-off-by: Emilio Cota <cota@braap.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20230108164731.61469-3-cota@braap.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
---
 accel/tcg/translator.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Comments

Richard Henderson Jan. 11, 2023, 7:11 p.m. UTC | #1 
On 1/10/23 09:39, Alex Bennée wrote:
> From: Emilio Cota<cota@braap.org>
> 
> Related: #1381
> 
> Signed-off-by: Emilio Cota<cota@braap.org>
> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé<philmd@linaro.org>
> Message-Id:<20230108164731.61469-3-cota@braap.org>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée<alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> ---
>   accel/tcg/translator.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
>   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>

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diff --git a/accel/tcg/translator.c b/accel/tcg/translator.c
index 061519691f..ef5193c67e 100644
--- a/accel/tcg/translator.c
+++ b/accel/tcg/translator.c
@@ -100,19 +100,24 @@  void translator_loop(CPUState *cpu, TranslationBlock *tb, int max_insns,
             ops->translate_insn(db, cpu);
         }
 
-        /* Stop translation if translate_insn so indicated.  */
-        if (db->is_jmp != DISAS_NEXT) {
-            break;
-        }
-
         /*
          * We can't instrument after instructions that change control
          * flow although this only really affects post-load operations.
+         *
+         * Calling plugin_gen_insn_end() before we possibly stop translation
+         * is important. Even if this ends up as dead code, plugin generation
+         * needs to see a matching plugin_gen_insn_{start,end}() pair in order
+         * to accurately track instrumented helpers that might access memory.
          */
         if (plugin_enabled) {
             plugin_gen_insn_end();
         }
 
+        /* Stop translation if translate_insn so indicated.  */
+        if (db->is_jmp != DISAS_NEXT) {
+            break;
+        }
+
         /* Stop translation if the output buffer is full,
            or we have executed all of the allowed instructions.  */
         if (tcg_op_buf_full() || db->num_insns >= db->max_insns) {