Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ARM host: fix generated blocks linking

[Laurent Desnogues]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Aurelien Jarno <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 02:27:59PM +0200, Laurent Desnogues wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> this patch fixes the linking of generated blocks on an ARM host.
>> No need to say this brings a very nice speedup :-)
>>
>>
>> Laurent
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Laurent Desnogues <address@hidden>
>
> Thanks, applied. Do you think it also apply to stable?

Well it used to work by accident;  it's fundamentally broken
since it just 'or' some new bits with existing ones (which are
there due to internal relocation).

So I think, it should be applied to stable too.


Laurent

>> diff --git a/exec-all.h b/exec-all.h
>> index 51519ff..daafc78 100644
>> --- a/exec-all.h
>> +++ b/exec-all.h
>> @@ -208,7 +208,9 @@ static inline void tb_set_jmp_target1(unsigned long 
>> jmp_addr, unsigned long addr
>>  #endif
>>
>>      /* we could use a ldr pc, [pc, #-4] kind of branch and avoid the flush 
>> */
>> -    *(uint32_t *)jmp_addr |= ((addr - (jmp_addr + 8)) >> 2) & 0xffffff;
>> +    *(uint32_t *)jmp_addr =
>> +        (*(uint32_t *)jmp_addr & ~0xffffff)
>> +        | (((addr - (jmp_addr + 8)) >> 2) & 0xffffff);
>>
>>  #if QEMU_GNUC_PREREQ(4, 1)
>>      __clear_cache((char *) jmp_addr, (char *) jmp_addr + 4);
>
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