On 01/30/2018 07:02 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Currently armv7m_nvic_acknowledge_irq() does three things:
>  * make the current highest priority pending interrupt active
>  * return a bool indicating whether that interrupt is targeting
>    Secure or NonSecure state
>  * implicitly tell the caller which is the highest priority
>    pending interrupt by setting env->v7m.exception
> 
> We need to split these jobs, because v7m_exception_taken()
> needs to know whether the pending interrupt targets Secure so
> it can choose to stack callee-saves registers or not, but it
> must not make the interrupt active until after it has done
> that stacking, in case the stacking causes a derived exception.
> Similarly, it needs to know the number of the pending interrupt
> so it can read the correct vector table entry before the
> interrupt is made active, because vector table reads might
> also cause a derived exception.
> 
> Create a new armv7m_nvic_get_pending_irq_info() function which simply
> returns information about the highest priority pending interrupt, and
> use it to rearrange the v7m_exception_taken() code so we don't
> acknowledge the exception until we've done all the things which could
> possibly cause a derived exception.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org>
> ---
>  target/arm/cpu.h      | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
>  hw/intc/armv7m_nvic.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  target/arm/helper.c   | 16 ++++++++++++----
>  hw/intc/trace-events  |  3 ++-
>  4 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

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


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