Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-arm: Do not reset sysregs marked as ALIAS

[Peter Maydell]

On 18 June 2015 at 21:57, Sergey Fedorov <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 18.06.2015 23:46, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 17 June 2015 at 16:25, Sergey Fedorov <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> cp_reg_reset() is called from g_hash_table_foreach() which does not
>>> define a specific ordering of the hash table iteration. Thus doing reset
>>> for registers marked as ALIAS would give an ambiguous result when
>>> resetvalue is different for original and alias resisters.
>> Was this actually the case for any of our registers? ie, is this
>> patch fixing a bug, or just cleaning up a potential cause of
>> confusion?
>
> Peter, I discovered such a confusing behavior for PMCR register and
> decided to sort this out.

Ah yes, nice catch. I'll fix up the commit message.

-- PMM