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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC/RFT PATCH 0/7] cpu-exec: simplify cpu_exec and rem
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC/RFT PATCH 0/7] cpu-exec: simplify cpu_exec and remove some icount special cases |
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Wed, 1 Feb 2017 12:54:20 -0800 |
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On 31/01/2017 01:05, Pavel Dovgalyuk wrote:
> Hi, Paolo!
>
> Thanks for refactoring.
> I tested these patches with icount record/replay on i386 machine.
> It works, but the following changes should be applied.
> I also removed call to replay_has_interrupt, because now it is not needed
> here.
> It seems, that this call is an artifact of an older record/replay revision.
>
> diff --git a/cpu-exec.c b/cpu-exec.c
> index 3838eb8..5cef8bc 100644
> --- a/cpu-exec.c
> +++ b/cpu-exec.c
> @@ -519,7 +519,8 @@ static inline bool cpu_handle_interrupt(CPUState *cpu,
> }
>
> /* Finally, check if we need to exit to the main loop. */
> - if (unlikely(atomic_read(&cpu->exit_request) || replay_has_interrupt()))
> {
> + if (unlikely(atomic_read(&cpu->exit_request)
> + || (use_icount && cpu->icount_decr.u16.low + cpu->icount_extra ==
> 0))) {
> atomic_set(&cpu->exit_request, 0);
> cpu->exception_index = EXCP_INTERRUPT;
> return true;
So is this needed to avoid exceptions in tb_find? Please add a comment
about this and check if you can also replace:
atomic_set(&cpu->exit_request, 1);
in cpu_loop_exec_tb with
cpu->icount_decr.u16.low = 0;
?
Thanks,
Paolo
> Pavel Dovgalyuk
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Paolo Bonzini [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Paolo Bonzini
>> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2017 12:09 AM
>> To: address@hidden
>> Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden; address@hidden
>> Subject: [RFC/RFT PATCH 0/7] cpu-exec: simplify cpu_exec and remove some
>> icount special cases
>>
>> The series includes three parts:
>>
>> 1-2: fix two bugs, the first one pretty bad, the second seems
>> to be theoretical only.
>>
>> 3-5: simplify cpu_exec. This builds on Sergey's conversion
>> of cpu_exec to a simple top-down logic, making the phases
>> clearer and saving on the cost of siglongjmp in the meanwhile.
>>
>> 6-7: these are intended to be a base for Pavel's record/replay
>> fixes. The main thing I noticed while reviewing is that icount
>> is redoing (with u16.high) a lot of things that tcg_exit_req is
>> doing too. This is because, at the time icount was introduced,
>> tcg_exit_req didn't exist and QEMU instead unwound chained TBs
>> through POSIX signals. But now we have essentially two ways to
>> do the same thing with subtly different invariants or downright
>> bugs (such as the one fixed by patch 1). Patch 6 therefore
>> unifies tcg_exit_req and the icount interrupt flag. It saves a
>> handful of instructions per TB in icount mode and generally
>> makes icount mode "less special", which is a good thing since
>> no one seems to understand it well. Patch 7 then removes another
>> EXCP_INTERRUPT/cpu_loop_exit pair; by exiting to main loop simply
>> through cpu->exit_request, hopefully it fixes one of the issues that
>> Pavel was seeing.
>>
>> For now I've tested this only on an aarch64 Linux image (with
>> and without -icount). Thanks,
>>
>> Paolo
>>
>> Paolo Bonzini (7):
>> cpu-exec: fix jmp_first out-of-bounds access with icount
>> cpu-exec: tighten barrier on TCG_EXIT_REQUESTED
>> cpu-exec: avoid cpu_loop_exit in cpu_handle_interrupt
>> cpu-exec: avoid repeated sigsetjmp on interrupts
>> cpu-exec: remove outermost infinite loop
>> cpu-exec: unify icount_decr and tcg_exit_req
>> cpu-exec: centralize exiting to the main loop
>>
>> cpu-exec.c | 153
>> +++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
>> include/exec/exec-all.h | 1 +
>> include/exec/gen-icount.h | 53 ++++++++--------
>> include/qom/cpu.h | 15 +++--
>> qom/cpu.c | 2 +-
>> tcg/tcg.h | 1 -
>> translate-all.c | 2 +-
>> translate-common.c | 13 ++--
>> 8 files changed, 109 insertions(+), 131 deletions(-)
>>
>> --
>> 2.9.3
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>
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