On Fri, 29 May 2026 at 09:29, Alex Bennée <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This series fully models the behaviour of WFxT instructions. We
> already had support for WFE for M-profile but we left off A-profile as
> it has more potential sources of wake-ups. The main one is the event
> stream which includes events from significant bits of the timer
> ticking over.
>
> The refactoring from the previous iterations of the patch have now
> been merged.
>
> I've dropped trying to fully model the global monitor in favour of
> taking advantage of the architectural flexibility to have an IMPDEF
> event wake up for any reason. We treat the setting of exclusive_addr
> as such a reason because it indicates the current vCPU is in a ldstx
> exclusive region and we don't want the guest to deadlock. This does mean
> the system won't sleep on WFE enabled locks but people shouldn't be
> relying on QEMU to model real world sleep patterns anyway given the
> efficiency of emulation compared to real HW.
>
> I've written a test case using kvm-unit-tests:
>
>   Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>   Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 12:18:21 +0100
>   Subject: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v2] arm: add wfx test case
>   From: =?UTF-8?q?Alex=20Benn=C3=A9e?= <[email protected]>
>
> All patches are now reviewed.



Applied to target-arm.next, thanks.

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