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authorAurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>2011-01-10 18:30:05 +0100
committerAurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>2011-01-12 00:06:07 +0100
commit56779034530944eb6171d843f652f3fba710ed30 (patch)
treebdb4eb8143f70a010b216e2c9921f7bb84fac55b
parentdace20dcc98f90a931e88aa641f5633cdcf30c30 (diff)
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tcg arm/mips/ia64: add a comment about retranslation and caches
Add a comment about cache coherency and retranslation, so that people
developping new targets based on existing ones are warned of the issue.

Acked-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
-rw-r--r--tcg/arm/tcg-target.c3
-rw-r--r--tcg/ia64/tcg-target.c3
-rw-r--r--tcg/mips/tcg-target.c4
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tcg/arm/tcg-target.c b/tcg/arm/tcg-target.c
index 1eb5605f8c..918e2f73cb 100644
--- a/tcg/arm/tcg-target.c
+++ b/tcg/arm/tcg-target.c
@@ -352,6 +352,9 @@ static inline void tcg_out_b(TCGContext *s, int cond, int32_t offset)
 
 static inline void tcg_out_b_noaddr(TCGContext *s, int cond)
 {
+    /* We pay attention here to not modify the branch target by skipping
+       the corresponding bytes. This ensure that caches and memory are
+       kept coherent during retranslation. */
 #ifdef HOST_WORDS_BIGENDIAN
     tcg_out8(s, (cond << 4) | 0x0a);
     s->code_ptr += 3;
diff --git a/tcg/ia64/tcg-target.c b/tcg/ia64/tcg-target.c
index e2e44f7d76..8dac7f72fd 100644
--- a/tcg/ia64/tcg-target.c
+++ b/tcg/ia64/tcg-target.c
@@ -871,6 +871,9 @@ static void tcg_out_br(TCGContext *s, int label_index)
 {
     TCGLabel *l = &s->labels[label_index];
 
+    /* We pay attention here to not modify the branch target by reading
+       the existing value and using it again. This ensure that caches and
+       memory are kept coherent during retranslation. */
     tcg_out_bundle(s, mmB,
                    tcg_opc_m48(TCG_REG_P0, OPC_NOP_M48, 0),
                    tcg_opc_m48(TCG_REG_P0, OPC_NOP_M48, 0),
diff --git a/tcg/mips/tcg-target.c b/tcg/mips/tcg-target.c
index 4e92a50e6f..e04b0dc32f 100644
--- a/tcg/mips/tcg-target.c
+++ b/tcg/mips/tcg-target.c
@@ -351,7 +351,9 @@ static inline void tcg_out_opc_imm(TCGContext *s, int opc, int rt, int rs, int i
  */
 static inline void tcg_out_opc_br(TCGContext *s, int opc, int rt, int rs)
 {
-    /* We need to keep the offset unchanged for retranslation */
+    /* We pay attention here to not modify the branch target by reading
+       the existing value and using it again. This ensure that caches and
+       memory are kept coherent during retranslation. */
     uint16_t offset = (uint16_t)(*(uint32_t *) s->code_ptr);
 
     tcg_out_opc_imm(s, opc, rt, rs, offset);