Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 11/30] target-i386: add atomic helpers

[Emilio G. Cota]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 13:27:35 -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 06/27/2016 12:01 PM, Emilio G. Cota wrote:
> >This patch only adds the helpers. Functions to invoke the helpers
> >from translated code are generated in subsequent patches.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Emilio G. Cota <address@hidden>
> >---
> > target-i386/helper.h     | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > target-i386/mem_helper.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > target-i386/translate.c  | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 3 files changed, 117 insertions(+)
> 
> 
> These are bare wrappers around what you've just added to exec/cpu_ldst*.
> 
> (1) Is there any reason these shouldn't go into tcg-runtime.h and
> tcg-runtime.c instead?
> 
> (2) If so, is there any good reason to add these to cpu_ldst* instead of
> *only* adding them as helpers to tcg-runtime.c?

The only reason is my incompetence :-) I didn't know about tcg-runtime.

Thanks,

                Emilio