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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 04/10] tcg: change cpu_restore_state to retu


From: Peter Maydell
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 04/10] tcg: change cpu_restore_state to return void
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:20:35 +0100

On 17 September 2012 18:09, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> Il 17/09/2012 19:06, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
>>> > The return value is used nowhere.
>> ...it looks like we should probably assert() rather than ploughing
>> blindly forward if we try to restore state to match a PC value and
>> it doesn't work for some reason.
>
> Couldn't that mean simply that the tb for instance wasn't mapped
> anywhere?  That's the KVM case, at least.

Hmm. For TCG there are certainly some cases where failure to
cpu_restore_state() means that the current CPU state is now broken;
that should be fatal (and I'm not sure there are any cases where
failure is OK. I think calls are generally protected by
checking that tb_find_pc() returned non-NULL, so we shouldn't
be trying to restore state unless we really were in the middle
of a TB that we know about and can translate.)

I'm not sure what the TB concept means for KVM -- after all KVM
doesn't do any translation...

-- PMM



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