Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/8] target/alpha cleanups

[Peter Maydell]

On 19 July 2017 at 22:52, Richard Henderson <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 07/19/2017 06:57 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>
>> On 19 July 2017 at 05:45, Richard Henderson <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> The new title holder for perf top is helper_lookup_tb_ptr.
>>> Those targets that have a complicated cpu_get_tb_cpu_state
>>> function are going to regret that.
>>
>>
>> Yeah, Paolo's pointed out (and had some patches for)
>> ARM's rather complicated cpu_get_tb_cpu_state(). My
>> issue with his suggested fixes was that they were
>> pretty fragile in terms of not having any guarantee
>> that the change always produced the right tb cpu
>> state flags answer...
>
>
> Oh?  I must have missed seeing this one.
> A quick patchwork search doesn't pull it up;
> do either of you have a link?

It was back in September:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg03133.html

thanks
-- PMM