Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/9] sparc64: clear exception_index with -1 value

[Blue Swirl]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Igor Kovalenko
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Artyom Tarasenko
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> What's the effect of the patch? Don't we need it for sparc32 too? The
>> code looks similar.
>>
>> 2010/1/6 Blue Swirl <address@hidden>:
>>> Thanks, applied.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Igor V. Kovalenko
>>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> From: Igor V. Kovalenko <address@hidden>
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Igor V. Kovalenko <address@hidden>
>>>> ---
>>>>  target-sparc/op_helper.c |    2 +-
>>>>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/target-sparc/op_helper.c b/target-sparc/op_helper.c
>>>> index b1978cb..94f1c7a 100644
>>>> --- a/target-sparc/op_helper.c
>>>> +++ b/target-sparc/op_helper.c
>>>> @@ -3535,7 +3535,7 @@ void do_interrupt(CPUState *env)
>>>>     env->tbr |= ((env->tl > 1) ? 1 << 14 : 0) | (intno << 5);
>>>>     env->pc = env->tbr;
>>>>     env->npc = env->pc + 4;
>>>> -    env->exception_index = 0;
>>>> +    env->exception_index = -1;
>>>>  }
>>>>  #else
>>>>  #ifdef DEBUG_PCALL
>
> Right, but that's out of scope for this changeset.
>
> In fact sparc32 should have the same issue, as well as alpha, s390 and
> sh4. Check in cpu_exec() for valid exception_index is "greater or
> equal to zero" so all those targets should be corrected. On sh4 we
> even check for "invalid value of exception_index is -1"

Thanks, I applied the fix for Sparc32. Here's also an untested fix for
other architectures.

0001-Fix-incorrect-exception_index-use.patch
Description: Source code patch