On 14 June 2017 at 18:49, Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> wrote: > diff --git a/target/arm/op_helper.c b/target/arm/op_helper.c > index 2a85666579..7e67bb3db2 100644 > --- a/target/arm/op_helper.c > +++ b/target/arm/op_helper.c > @@ -835,6 +835,9 @@ void HELPER(msr_i_pstate)(CPUARMState *env, uint32_t op, > uint32_t imm) > break; > case 0x1f: /* DAIFClear */ > env->daif &= ~((imm << 6) & PSTATE_DAIF); > + /* This may result in pending IRQs being unmasked so ensure we > + exit the loop */ > + cpu_exit(ENV_GET_CPU(env)); > break; > default: > g_assert_not_reached();
The 'op' field we're switching on here is just a constant from the instruction encoding, so I'd rather see us identify that in translate-a64.c and end the TB or whatever when we need to, rather than doing the longjump-out-of-here that cpu_exit() does at runtime. thanks -- PMM