Re: [PATCH 01/18] target/arm: Allow raise_exception to handle finding target EL

[Richard Henderson]

On 5/30/22 12:01, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > I'll have another go at this reorg this week.  If it still doesn't feel 
> > cleaner, we can
> > drop it, and I'll make some changes to the SME patch set building on this.
>
> I was wondering if it would work better the other way around, so that
> raise_exception() doesn't mess with the target_el at all, and all the
> "work out which EL to take the exception to" is done in
> target_exception_el() and similar ?

We need some place to put the EC_ADVSIMDFPACCESSTRAP special case, and it has to be done 
at the same time we're handling HCR_EL2.TGE.  Perhaps that can be separated out to its own 
helper.


r~