Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 01/10] ppc: Fix rfi/rfid/hrfi/... emulation

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Wed, 2016-09-07 at 14:13 +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> On 09/07/2016 01:08 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 2016-09-07 at 12:50 +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> > > 
> > > This is a bit broader than Ben's patch which used
> > > PPC_SEGMENT_64B. 
> > > it's basically !PPC_64B which includes the e5500.
> > > 
> > > If so, here is a proposal below adding a new PPC_RFI in the 
> > > "PowerPC Instructions types definitions" enum for that purpose. 
> > > Not much bits left there.
> > 
> > Why not stick to PPC_SEGMENT_64B ?
> 
> I am trying to remove the rfi instruction from the set of the CPU 
> and I think we need to introduce a new PPC_* bit for GEN_HANDLER to :

What does it buy you instead of just having the test in the handler ?

> +GEN_HANDLER(rfi, 0x13, 0x12, 0x01, 0x03FF8001, PPC_RFI),
> 
> we can also keep the test on PPC_SEGMENT_64B in the handler which 
> works perfectly fine. 
> 
> > 
> > rfi exists on all 32-bit processors and all non-Book3S (aka server
> > aka
> > segment/hash) 64-bit. So PPC_SEGMENT_64B is the test we want.
> > 
> > IE. rfi does exist on e5500
> 
> ok.
> 
> Cheers,
> C.