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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 10/11] tcg/mips: Make direct jump patching th
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Aurelien Jarno |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 10/11] tcg/mips: Make direct jump patching thread-safe |
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Fri, 22 Apr 2016 18:51:59 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) |
On 2016-04-22 18:47, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On 2016-04-22 19:08, Sergey Fedorov wrote:
> > From: Sergey Fedorov <address@hidden>
> >
> > Ensure direct jump patching in MIPS is atomic by using
> > atomic_read()/atomic_set() for code patching.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sergey Fedorov <address@hidden>
> > Signed-off-by: Sergey Fedorov <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >
> > Changes in v2:
> > * s/atomic_write/atomic_set/
> >
> > tcg/mips/tcg-target.inc.c | 3 ++-
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tcg/mips/tcg-target.inc.c b/tcg/mips/tcg-target.inc.c
> > index 682e19897db0..cefc0398018a 100644
> > --- a/tcg/mips/tcg-target.inc.c
> > +++ b/tcg/mips/tcg-target.inc.c
> > @@ -1886,6 +1886,7 @@ static void tcg_target_init(TCGContext *s)
> > void tb_set_jmp_target1(uintptr_t jmp_addr, uintptr_t addr)
> > {
> > uint32_t *ptr = (uint32_t *)jmp_addr;
> > - *ptr = deposit32(*ptr, 0, 26, addr >> 2);
> > + uint32_t insn = atomic_read(ptr);
> > + atomic_set(ptr, deposit32(insn, 0, 26, addr >> 2));
> > flush_icache_range(jmp_addr, jmp_addr + 4);
>
> Does it really make sense to read and write the value atomically? The
> resulting operation is still not atomic, something can happen in
> between.
Hmm, thinking more about that, given the only instruction used is "J",
we don't have to read the value, patch it and write it. We can directly
use something like (untested):
atomic_set(ptr, (0x02 << 26) | (addr >> 2));
Aurelien
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