On 12/30/2017 02:56 PM, Michael Weiser wrote:
> ldxp loads two consecutive doublewords from memory regardless of CPU
> endianness. On store, stlxp currently assumes to work with a 128bit
> value and consequently switches order in big-endian mode. With this
> change it packs the doublewords in reverse order in anticipation of the
> 128bit big-endian store operation interposing them so they end up in
> memory in the right order. This makes it work for both MTTCG and !MTTCG.
> It effectively implements the ARM ARM STLXP operation pseudo-code:
>
> data = if BigEndian() then el1:el2 else el2:el1;
>
> With this change an aarch64_be Linux 4.14.4 kernel succeeds to boot up
> in system emulation mode.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Weiser <michael.wei...@gmx.de>
> ---
> target/arm/helper-a64.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> v2:
> - make it work for MTTCG as well by catering to the 128bit expectation
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.hender...@linaro.org>
> + * 128bit store but two doulbewords stored consecutively */
^^ typo
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