Re: [Qemu-devel] Poking a sun4v machine

[Artyom Tarasenko]

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Blue Swirl <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 16:39, Artyom Tarasenko <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Tried to boot QEMU Niagara machine with the firmware from the
>> OpenSPARC T1 emulator ( www.opensparc.net/opensparc-t1/download.html )
>> , and it dies very early.
>> The reason: in translate.c
>>
>> #define hypervisor(dc) (dc->mem_idx == MMU_HYPV_IDX)
>> #define supervisor(dc) (dc->mem_idx >= MMU_KERNEL_IDX)
>>
>> and the dc->mem_idx is initialized like this:
>>
>>    if (env1->tl > 0) {
>>        return MMU_NUCLEUS_IDX;
>>    } else if (cpu_hypervisor_mode(env1)) {
>>        return MMU_HYPV_IDX;
>>    } else if (cpu_supervisor_mode(env1)) {
>>        return MMU_KERNEL_IDX;
>>    } else {
>>        return MMU_USER_IDX;
>>    }
>>
>> Which seems to be conceptually incorrect. After reset tl == MAXTL, but
>> still super- and hyper-visor bits are set, so both supervisor(dc) and
>> hypervisor(dc) must return 1 which is impossible in the current
>> implementation.
>
> I don't think this is needed. The MMU index tells which TLB is used
> for guest virtual to host address translations, during tl == MAXTL we
> want to use hypervisor mode translations.

Is just about the address translations? I thought it affects TB cache
as well, which has to be invalidated between nucleus, super- and
hypervisor switches?

>> What would be the proper way to fix it? Make mem_idx bitmap, add two
>> more variables to DisasContext, or ...?
>>