Re: [PATCH v4 26/57] tcg/arm: Adjust constraints on qemu_ld/st

[Peter Maydell]

On Wed, 3 May 2023 at 08:10, Richard Henderson
<richard.henderson@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> Always reserve r3 for tlb softmmu lookup.  Fix a bug in user-only
> ALL_QLDST_REGS, in that r14 is clobbered by the BLNE that leads
> to the misaligned trap.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
> ---

>  /*
> - * r0-r2 will be overwritten when reading the tlb entry (softmmu only)
> - * and r0-r1 doing the byte swapping, so don't use these.
> - * r3 is removed for softmmu to avoid clashes with helper arguments.
> + * r0-r3 will be overwritten when reading the tlb entry (softmmu only);
> + * r14 will be overwritten by the BLNE branching to the slow path.
>   */
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SOFTMMU
> -#define ALL_QLOAD_REGS \
> +#define ALL_QLDST_REGS \
>      (ALL_GENERAL_REGS & ~((1 << TCG_REG_R0) | (1 << TCG_REG_R1) | \
>                            (1 << TCG_REG_R2) | (1 << TCG_REG_R3) | \
>                            (1 << TCG_REG_R14)))
> -#define ALL_QSTORE_REGS \
> -    (ALL_GENERAL_REGS & ~((1 << TCG_REG_R0) | (1 << TCG_REG_R1) | \
> -                          (1 << TCG_REG_R2) | (1 << TCG_REG_R14) | \
> -                          ((TARGET_LONG_BITS == 64) << TCG_REG_R3)))
>  #else
> -#define ALL_QLOAD_REGS   ALL_GENERAL_REGS
> -#define ALL_QSTORE_REGS \
> -    (ALL_GENERAL_REGS & ~((1 << TCG_REG_R0) | (1 << TCG_REG_R1)))
> +#define ALL_QLDST_REGS   (ALL_GENERAL_REGS & ~(1 << TCG_REG_R14))
>  #endif

Why is it OK not to remove r0 and r1 from this any more ?
The commit message doesn't say anything about this bit of the change.

-- PMM