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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] cpu_physical_memory_write_rom() needs to do
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Andreas Färber |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] cpu_physical_memory_write_rom() needs to do TB invalidates |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:27:45 +0200 |
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Am 10.09.2012 04:30, schrieb David Gibson:
> cpu_physical_memory_write_rom(), despite the name, can also be used to
> write images into RAM - and will often be used that way if the machine
> uses load_image_targphys() into RAM addresses.
>
> However, cpu_physical_memory_write_rom(), unlike cpu_physical_memory_rw()
> does invalidate any cached TBs which might be affected by the region
"doesn't"?
Otherwise doesn't look wrong.
Andreas
> written.
>
> This was breaking reset (under full emu) on the pseries machine - we loaded
> our firmware image into RAM, and while executing it rewrite the code at
> the entry point (correctly causing a TB invalidate/refresh). When we
> reset the firmware image was reloaded, but the TB from the rewrite was
> still active and caused us to get an illegal instruction trap.
>
> This patch fixes the bug by duplicating the tb invalidate code from
> cpu_physical_memory_rw() in cpu_physical_memory_write_rom().
>
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>
> ---
> exec.c | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/exec.c b/exec.c
> index 5834766..eff40d7 100644
> --- a/exec.c
> +++ b/exec.c
> @@ -3523,6 +3523,13 @@ void cpu_physical_memory_write_rom(target_phys_addr_t
> addr,
> /* ROM/RAM case */
> ptr = qemu_get_ram_ptr(addr1);
> memcpy(ptr, buf, l);
> + if (!cpu_physical_memory_is_dirty(addr1)) {
> + /* invalidate code */
> + tb_invalidate_phys_page_range(addr1, addr1 + l, 0);
> + /* set dirty bit */
> + cpu_physical_memory_set_dirty_flags(
> + addr1, (0xff & ~CODE_DIRTY_FLAG));
> + }
> qemu_put_ram_ptr(ptr);
> }
> len -= l;
>
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