Strictly speaking, as far as the standard care, performing pointer
arithmetic on a void* type is ill formed. This is a GNU extension that
allows this. Instead, just use unsigned char* which preserves the same
behavior.
In icount mode, instructions that access io memory spaces in the middle
of the translation block invoke TB recompilation. After recompilation,
such instructions become last in the TB and are allowed to access io
memory spaces.
When the code includes instruction like i386 'xchg eax, 0xffffd080'
which accesses APIC, QEMU goes into an infinite loop of the recompilation.
This instruction includes two memory accesses - one read and one write.
After the first access, APIC calls cpu_report_tpr_access, which restores
the CPU state to get the current eip. But cpu_restore_state_from_tb
resets the cpu->can_do_io flag which makes the second memory access invalid.
Therefore the second memory access causes a recompilation of the block.
Then these operations repeat again and again.
This patch moves resetting cpu->can_do_io flag from
cpu_restore_state_from_tb to cpu_loop_exit* functions.
It also adds a parameter for cpu_restore_state which controls restoring
icount. There is no need to restore icount when we only query CPU state
without breaking the TB. Restoring it in such cases leads to the
incorrect flow of the virtual time.
In most cases new parameter is true (icount should be recalculated).
But there are two cases in i386 and openrisc when the CPU state is only
queried without the need to break the TB. This patch fixes both of
these cases.
Backports commit afd46fcad2dceffda35c0586f5723c127b6e09d8 from qemu
We are still seeing signals during translation time when we walk over
a page protection boundary. This expands the check to ensure the host
PC is inside the code generation buffer. The original suggestion was
to check versus tcg_ctx.code_gen_ptr but as we now segment the
translation buffer we have to settle for just a general check for
being inside.
I've also fixed up the declaration to make it clear it can deal with
invalid addresses. A later patch will fix up the call sites.
Backports commit d25f2a72272b9ffe0d06710d6217d1169bc2cc7d from qemu
move tcg-runtime.c, translate-all.(ch) and translate-common.c into
accel/tcg/ subdirectory and updated related trace-events file.
Backports commit 244f144134d0dd182f1af8654e7f9a79fe770368 and applies
relevant changes made in db432672dc50ed86dda17ac821b7eb07411a90af and
d9bb58e51068dfc48746c6af0179926c8dc05bce from qemu
