Fix CP0.Config3.ISAOnExc write accesses on microMIPS processors. This bit is mandatory for any processor that implements the microMIPS instruction set. This bit is r/w for processors that implement both the standard MIPS and the microMIPS instruction set. This bit is r/o and hardwired to 1 if only the microMIPS instruction set is implemented.
There is no other bit ever writable in CP0.Config3 so defining a corresponding `CP0_Config3_rw_bitmask' member in `CPUMIPSState' is I think an overkill. Therefore make the ability to write the bit rely on the presence of ASE_MICROMIPS set in the instruction flags. The read-only case of the microMIPS instruction set being implemented only can be added when we add support for such a configuration. We do not currently have such support, we have no instruction flag that would control the presence of the standard MIPS instruction set nor any associated code in instruction decoding. This change is needed to boot a microMIPS Linux kernel successfully, otherwise it hangs early on as interrupts are enabled and then the exception handler invoked loops as its first instruction is interpreted in the wrong execution mode and triggers another exception right away. And then over and over again. We already check the current setting of the CP0.Config3.ISAOnExc in `set_hflags_for_handler' to set the ISA bit correctly on the exception handler entry so it is the ability to set it that is missing only. Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <ma...@codesourcery.com> --- Hi, I think there isn't anything else to add here as to the change itself. I must have been the first one to try a microMIPS Linux kernel on QEMU as I had to make a small tweak to Linux configuration too to be able to build such a kernel at all that can run on a hardware configuration supported by QEMU (Malta specifically; the only system enabled for microMIPS configuration in Linux used to be SEAD-3 that in turn we have no support for). I think that's a shame, microMIPS support has been there both in QEMU and in Linux for a while now but there you go. The good news is with this change in place microMIPS Linux boots to the multiuser mode and even survives banging on with GNU toolchain test suites. I'll be using that arrangement for the validation of some of the upcoming changes; that should give us reasonable coverage. Please note that for this validation I'm using an artificial microMIPS processor that also has an FPU implemented, so that our microMIPS FP support is correctly validated too (I don't really know if there exists any real microMIPS processor that includes an FPU; if so, then it would be good to add it to the list our supported configurations). Also, FYI, the handler for DMTC0 to Config4 appears to be missing. Please apply. Maciej qemu-mips-config3-isaonexc.diff Index: qemu-git-trunk/target-mips/helper.h =================================================================== --- qemu-git-trunk.orig/target-mips/helper.h 2014-11-17 04:52:21.000000000 +0000 +++ qemu-git-trunk/target-mips/helper.h 2014-11-17 04:52:25.397682963 +0000 @@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ DEF_HELPER_2(mtc0_ebase, void, env, tl) DEF_HELPER_2(mttc0_ebase, void, env, tl) DEF_HELPER_2(mtc0_config0, void, env, tl) DEF_HELPER_2(mtc0_config2, void, env, tl) +DEF_HELPER_2(mtc0_config3, void, env, tl) DEF_HELPER_2(mtc0_config4, void, env, tl) DEF_HELPER_2(mtc0_config5, void, env, tl) DEF_HELPER_2(mtc0_lladdr, void, env, tl) Index: qemu-git-trunk/target-mips/op_helper.c =================================================================== --- qemu-git-trunk.orig/target-mips/op_helper.c 2014-11-17 04:52:21.000000000 +0000 +++ qemu-git-trunk/target-mips/op_helper.c 2014-11-17 05:05:01.478644569 +0000 @@ -1503,6 +1503,14 @@ void helper_mtc0_config2(CPUMIPSState *e env->CP0_Config2 = (env->CP0_Config2 & 0x8FFF0FFF); } +void helper_mtc0_config3(CPUMIPSState *env, target_ulong arg1) +{ + if (env->insn_flags & ASE_MICROMIPS) { + env->CP0_Config3 = (env->CP0_Config3 & ~(1 << CP0C3_ISA_ON_EXC)) | + (arg1 & (1 << CP0C3_ISA_ON_EXC)); + } +} + void helper_mtc0_config4(CPUMIPSState *env, target_ulong arg1) { env->CP0_Config4 = (env->CP0_Config4 & (~env->CP0_Config4_rw_bitmask)) | Index: qemu-git-trunk/target-mips/translate.c =================================================================== --- qemu-git-trunk.orig/target-mips/translate.c 2014-11-17 04:52:21.000000000 +0000 +++ qemu-git-trunk/target-mips/translate.c 2014-11-17 04:55:11.909027669 +0000 @@ -5846,8 +5846,10 @@ static void gen_mtc0(DisasContext *ctx, ctx->bstate = BS_STOP; break; case 3: - /* ignored, read only */ + gen_helper_mtc0_config3(cpu_env, arg); rn = "Config3"; + /* Stop translation as we may have switched the execution mode */ + ctx->bstate = BS_STOP; break; case 4: gen_helper_mtc0_config4(cpu_env, arg); @@ -7097,8 +7099,10 @@ static void gen_dmtc0(DisasContext *ctx, ctx->bstate = BS_STOP; break; case 3: - /* ignored */ + gen_helper_mtc0_config3(cpu_env, arg); rn = "Config3"; + /* Stop translation as we may have switched the execution mode */ + ctx->bstate = BS_STOP; break; case 4: /* currently ignored */