On Fri, 12 Jun 2026 at 18:18, Alex Bennée <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Peter Maydell <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> Is it too late to drop them? I've a fix for 2/8:

That change is already in upstream git, so you'll need to
send the fix as a standalone patch, I'm afraid.

-- PMM

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