On M profile, return from exceptions happen when code in Handler mode
executes one of the following function call return instructions:
* POP or LDM which loads the PC
* LDR to PC
* BX register
and the new PC value is 0xFFxxxxxx.
QEMU tries to implement this by not treating the instruction
specially but then catching the attempt to execute from the magic
address value. This is not ideal, because:
* there are guest visible differences from the architecturally
specified behaviour (for instance jumping to 0xFFxxxxxx via a
different instruction should not cause an exception return but it
will in the QEMU implementation)
* we have to account for it in various places (like refusing to take
an interrupt if the PC is at a magic value, and making sure that
the MPU doesn't deny execution at the magic value addresses)
Drop these hacks, and instead implement exception return the way the
architecture specifies -- by having the relevant instructions check
for the magic value and raise the 'do an exception return' QEMU
internal exception immediately.
The effect on the generated code is minor:
bx lr, old code (and new code for Thread mode):
TCG:
mov_i32 tmp5,r14
movi_i32 tmp6,$0xfffffffffffffffe
and_i32 pc,tmp5,tmp6
movi_i32 tmp6,$0x1
and_i32 tmp5,tmp5,tmp6
st_i32 tmp5,env,$0x218
exit_tb $0x0
set_label $L0
exit_tb $0x7f2aabd61993
x86_64 generated code:
0x7f2aabe87019: mov %ebx,%ebp
0x7f2aabe8701b: and $0xfffffffffffffffe,%ebp
0x7f2aabe8701e: mov %ebp,0x3c(%r14)
0x7f2aabe87022: and $0x1,%ebx
0x7f2aabe87025: mov %ebx,0x218(%r14)
0x7f2aabe8702c: xor %eax,%eax
0x7f2aabe8702e: jmpq 0x7f2aabe7c016
bx lr, new code when in Handler mode:
TCG:
mov_i32 tmp5,r14
movi_i32 tmp6,$0xfffffffffffffffe
and_i32 pc,tmp5,tmp6
movi_i32 tmp6,$0x1
and_i32 tmp5,tmp5,tmp6
st_i32 tmp5,env,$0x218
movi_i32 tmp5,$0xffffffffff000000
brcond_i32 pc,tmp5,geu,$L1
exit_tb $0x0
set_label $L1
movi_i32 tmp5,$0x8
call exception_internal,$0x0,$0,env,tmp5
x86_64 generated code:
0x7fe8fa1264e3: mov %ebp,%ebx
0x7fe8fa1264e5: and $0xfffffffffffffffe,%ebx
0x7fe8fa1264e8: mov %ebx,0x3c(%r14)
0x7fe8fa1264ec: and $0x1,%ebp
0x7fe8fa1264ef: mov %ebp,0x218(%r14)
0x7fe8fa1264f6: cmp $0xff000000,%ebx
0x7fe8fa1264fc: jae 0x7fe8fa126509
0x7fe8fa126502: xor %eax,%eax
0x7fe8fa126504: jmpq 0x7fe8fa122016
0x7fe8fa126509: mov %r14,%rdi
0x7fe8fa12650c: mov $0x8,%esi
0x7fe8fa126511: mov $0x56095dbeccf5,%r10
0x7fe8fa12651b: callq *%r10
which is a difference of one cmp/branch-not-taken. This will
be lost in the noise of having to exit generated code and
look up the next TB anyway.
Backports commit 3bb8a96f5348913ee130169504f3642f501b113e from qemu
For M profile exception-return handling we'd like to generate different
code for some instructions depending on whether we are in Handler
mode or Thread mode. This isn't the same as "are we privileged
or user", so we need an extra bit in the TB flags to distinguish.
Backports commit 064c379c99b835bdcc478d21a3849507ea07d53a from qemu
Add support for generating the ISS (Instruction Specific Syndrome)
for Data Abort exceptions taken from AArch32. These syndromes are
used by hypervisors for example to trap and emulate memory accesses.
This is the equivalent for AArch32 guests of the work done for AArch64
guests in commit aaa1f954d4cab243.
Backports commit 9bb6558a218bf7e466e5ac1100639517d8a30d33 from qemu
We've currently got 18 architectures in QEMU, and thus 18 target-xxx
folders in the root folder of the QEMU source tree. More architectures
(e.g. RISC-V, AVR) are likely to be included soon, too, so the main
folder of the QEMU sources slowly gets quite overcrowded with the
target-xxx folders.
To disburden the main folder a little bit, let's move the target-xxx
folders into a dedicated target/ folder, so that target-xxx/ simply
becomes target/xxx/ instead.
Backports commit fcf5ef2ab52c621a4617ebbef36bf43b4003f4c0 from qemu
