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| author | Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> | 2011-01-10 18:30:05 +0100 |
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| committer | Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> | 2011-01-12 00:06:07 +0100 |
| commit | 56779034530944eb6171d843f652f3fba710ed30 (patch) | |
| tree | bdb4eb8143f70a010b216e2c9921f7bb84fac55b | |
| parent | dace20dcc98f90a931e88aa641f5633cdcf30c30 (diff) | |
tcg arm/mips/ia64: add a comment about retranslation and caches
Add a comment about cache coherency and retranslation, so that people
developping new targets based on existing ones are warned of the issue.
Acked-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | tcg/arm/tcg-target.c | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tcg/ia64/tcg-target.c | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tcg/mips/tcg-target.c | 4 |
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tcg/arm/tcg-target.c b/tcg/arm/tcg-target.c index 1eb5605f8..918e2f73c 100644 --- a/tcg/arm/tcg-target.c +++ b/tcg/arm/tcg-target.c @@ -352,6 +352,9 @@ static inline void tcg_out_b(TCGContext *s, int cond, int32_t offset) static inline void tcg_out_b_noaddr(TCGContext *s, int cond) { + /* We pay attention here to not modify the branch target by skipping + the corresponding bytes. This ensure that caches and memory are + kept coherent during retranslation. */ #ifdef HOST_WORDS_BIGENDIAN tcg_out8(s, (cond << 4) | 0x0a); s->code_ptr += 3; diff --git a/tcg/ia64/tcg-target.c b/tcg/ia64/tcg-target.c index e2e44f7d7..8dac7f72f 100644 --- a/tcg/ia64/tcg-target.c +++ b/tcg/ia64/tcg-target.c @@ -871,6 +871,9 @@ static void tcg_out_br(TCGContext *s, int label_index) { TCGLabel *l = &s->labels[label_index]; + /* We pay attention here to not modify the branch target by reading + the existing value and using it again. This ensure that caches and + memory are kept coherent during retranslation. */ tcg_out_bundle(s, mmB, tcg_opc_m48(TCG_REG_P0, OPC_NOP_M48, 0), tcg_opc_m48(TCG_REG_P0, OPC_NOP_M48, 0), diff --git a/tcg/mips/tcg-target.c b/tcg/mips/tcg-target.c index 4e92a50e6..e04b0dc32 100644 --- a/tcg/mips/tcg-target.c +++ b/tcg/mips/tcg-target.c @@ -351,7 +351,9 @@ static inline void tcg_out_opc_imm(TCGContext *s, int opc, int rt, int rs, int i */ static inline void tcg_out_opc_br(TCGContext *s, int opc, int rt, int rs) { - /* We need to keep the offset unchanged for retranslation */ + /* We pay attention here to not modify the branch target by reading + the existing value and using it again. This ensure that caches and + memory are kept coherent during retranslation. */ uint16_t offset = (uint16_t)(*(uint32_t *) s->code_ptr); tcg_out_opc_imm(s, opc, rt, rs, offset); |