Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.6] target-mips: do not raise exceptions when accessing invalid memory

[Stefan Weil]

Am 27.07.2013 22:43, schrieb Andreas Färber:
> Am 27.07.2013 21:37, schrieb Stefan Weil:
>> Am 27.07.2013 19:43, schrieb Peter Maydell:
>>> On 27 July 2013 17:18, Hervé Poussineau <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Another solution would be to add a big dummy memory regions on all MIPS 
>>>> boards
>>>> to catch memory accesses and not raise an exception. However, this means 
>>>> that
>>>> each MIPS board will have its own unassigned memory handler, different 
>>>> from the
>>>> global QEMU one.
>>> Better would be to at least provide fake RAZ/WI implementations of
>>> devices for the boards, rather than making the dummy region cover
>>> the whole of the address space. Not 1.6 material, though.
>> I prefer keeping the correct code for target-mips/op_helper.c
>> and adding either the big dummy memory regions or fake
>> device implementations (both with TODO comments) for 1.6.
> The problem I see with that is, so far no one has stepped up with a list
> of what memory ranges / devices we are talking about.
>
> The simplest for 1.6 might be to re-add an #ifndef TARGET_MIPS around
> the refactored call to restore old behavior.
>
> Andreas

Hervé's patch or the big dummy memory region can be used to get
the memory addresses in a certain test scenario from log messages.

These addresses can then be added as "undefined devices" with a TODO comment.

I might send a fix for MIPS Malta which gets Linux working again,
but maybe not before 1.6.1.

Stefan