Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 1/8] target/ppc: Add ppc_store_lpcr() helper

[David Gibson]

On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 09:06:42AM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> On 05/03/2018 08:21 AM, David Gibson wrote:
> > There are some fields in the cpu state which need to be updated when the
> > LPCR register is changed, which is done by ppc_hash64_update_rmls() and
> > ppc_hash64_update_vrma().  Code which alters env->spr[SPR_LPCR] needs to
> > call them afterwards to make sure the state is up to date.
> > 
> > That's easy to get wrong.  The normal way of dealing with sitautions like
> > that is to use a helper which both updates the basic register value and the
> > derived state.
> > 
> > So, do that.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <address@hidden>
> 
> Although, I am not sure mmu-hash64.c is the right file for the 
> ppc_store_lpcr()
> helper. This is minor.

It really isn't.  I looked at moving it, but since the code we're
rearranging is already in that file it just made things messier.
Problem for another day.

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