Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 15/21] target-arm: Widen thread-local register state fields to 64 bits

[Peter Maydell]

On 19 December 2013 20:53, Richard Henderson <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 12/17/2013 07:12 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> -        uint32_t c13_tls1; /* User RW Thread register.  */
>> -        uint32_t c13_tls2; /* User RO Thread register.  */
>> -        uint32_t c13_tls3; /* Privileged Thread register.  */
>> +        uint64_t tpidr_el0; /* User RW Thread register.  */
>> +        uint64_t tpidrro_el0; /* User RO Thread register.  */
>> +        uint64_t tpidr_el1; /* Privileged Thread register.  */
>
> Not target_ulong, continuing to use 32bit slot for pure AA32?

It would only be a 32 bit slot for the 32 bit cores in qemu-arm;
the same cores in qemu-aarch64 would be 64 bits. I think
I'd rather have the consistency (and the ability to migrate
between a qemu-arm cortex-a9 and a qemu-aarch64 cortex-a9
doesn't hurt).

thanks
-- PMM