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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.12] tcg/mips: Handle large offsets from ta
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.12] tcg/mips: Handle large offsets from target env to tlb_table |
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Mon, 30 Apr 2018 19:00:30 +0100 |
On 30 April 2018 at 18:44, Alex Bennée <address@hidden> wrote:
> Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:
>> An ideal long term approach would be to rearrange the CPU state
>> so that the tlb_table was not so far along it, but this is tricky
>> because it would move it from the "not cleared on CPU reset" part
>> of the struct to the "cleared on CPU reset" part.
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> Is that really a problem? Doesn't it mean we'll just reload the TLB
> after a reset?
It was the sort of "this subtly changes the semantics on all
hosts for the sake of an issue that's mips-hosts-only" change
that I didn't want to try to reason through and make very close
to release when we didn't have a lot of time to test the results...
thanks
-- PMM