On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 at 09:57, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 at 23:17, Palmer Dabbelt <pal...@sifive.com> wrote:
> > You're more than welcome to take them over. I've got something that boots
> > Linux on my unassigned_access branch (github.com/palmer-dabbelt/qemu), but I
> > haven't sanitized the whole port for physical accesses and I haven't
> > convinced
> > myself that my hook implementation is correct.
>
> Rather than doing
> if (retaddr) {
> cpu_restore_state(cs, retaddr, true);
> }
>
> at the start of the hook I think you just want to pass 'retaddr'
> as the final argument to riscv_raise_exception() instead of
> using GETPC(). Other than that I think the hook itself is right.
>
> The 'git grep' regexes in docs/devel/loads-stores.rst are handy
> for finding the places where the target code is doing physical
> accesses. IIRC the only ones I found with a quick scan were the
> PTE loads in get_physical_address() via ldl_phys/ldq_phys, which will
> now return 0 and run into the 'invalid PTE' code path. I don't
> know whether your architecture requires some different behaviour
> for bus errors on page table walk than that (you might want to
> specifically code the error path anyway or comment it even if the
> behaviour is right, to be a bit more explicit that it can happen).
Gentle ping -- would somebody like to have a go at the riscv
do_transaction_failed hook conversion? I think it should be
straightforward, and riscv is now the only architecture still
using the old unassigned_access hook and preventing us from
getting rid of it entirely.
thanks
-- PMM
