Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/3] qom/cpu: move tlb_flush to cpu_common_reset

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 03:47:29PM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote:
> It is a common thing amongst the various cpu reset functions want to
> flush the SoftMMU's TLB entries. This is done either by calling
> tlb_flush directly or by way of a general memset of the CPU
> structure (sometimes both).
> 
> This moves the tlb_flush call to the common reset function and
> additionally ensures it is only done for the CONFIG_SOFTMMU case and
> when tcg is enabled.
> 
> In some target cases we add an empty end_of_reset_fields structure to the
> target vCPU structure so have a clear end point for any memset which
> is resetting value in the structure before CPU_COMMON (where the TLB
> structures are).
> 
> While this is a nice clean-up in general it is also a precursor for
> changes coming to cputlb for MTTCG where the clearing of entries
> can't be done arbitrarily across vCPUs. Currently the cpu_reset
> function is usually called from the context of another vCPU as the
> architectural power up sequence is run. By using the cputlb API
> functions we can ensure the right behaviour in the future.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <address@hidden>
> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <address@hidden>

For i386:

Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden>

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Eduardo