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| author | Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> | 2020-07-20 13:23:58 +0100 |
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| committer | Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> | 2020-07-24 14:25:11 -0700 |
| commit | 570ef3093b5ed327249397ad0295cf01c67d9db4 (patch) | |
| tree | 033d3dab5a3acae44fcad621f09dff5b567d5bbb /accel | |
| parent | 7adfbea8fd1efce36019a0c2f198ca73be9d3f18 (diff) | |
tcg: update comments for save_iotlb_data in cputlb
I missed Emilio's review comments:
Message-ID: <20200718205107.GA994221@sff>
and the patch got merged. Correcting the comments now.
Reviewed-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20200720122358.26881-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'accel')
| -rw-r--r-- | accel/tcg/cputlb.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/accel/tcg/cputlb.c b/accel/tcg/cputlb.c index d370aedb47..5698292749 100644 --- a/accel/tcg/cputlb.c +++ b/accel/tcg/cputlb.c @@ -1075,10 +1075,8 @@ static uint64_t io_readx(CPUArchState *env, CPUIOTLBEntry *iotlbentry, /* * Save a potentially trashed IOTLB entry for later lookup by plugin. - * - * We also need to track the thread storage address because the RCU - * cleanup that runs when we leave the critical region (the current - * execution) is actually in a different thread. + * This is read by tlb_plugin_lookup if the iotlb entry doesn't match + * because of the side effect of io_writex changing memory layout. */ static void save_iotlb_data(CPUState *cs, hwaddr addr, MemoryRegionSection *section, hwaddr mr_offset) @@ -1408,8 +1406,9 @@ void *tlb_vaddr_to_host(CPUArchState *env, abi_ptr addr, * This almost never fails as the memory access being instrumented * should have just filled the TLB. The one corner case is io_writex * which can cause TLB flushes and potential resizing of the TLBs - * loosing the information we need. In those cases we need to recover - * data from a copy of the io_tlb entry. + * losing the information we need. In those cases we need to recover + * data from a copy of the iotlbentry. As long as this always occurs + * from the same thread (which a mem callback will be) this is safe. */ bool tlb_plugin_lookup(CPUState *cpu, target_ulong addr, int mmu_idx, |