On 02/05/2016 01:56 AM, Alex Bennée wrote:
diff --git a/translate-all.c b/translate-all.c
index ab61fac..dce00d5 100644
--- a/translate-all.c
+++ b/translate-all.c
@@ -1055,7 +1055,6 @@ TranslationBlock *tb_gen_code(CPUState *cpu,
      TranslationBlock *tb;
      tb_page_addr_t phys_pc, phys_page2;
      target_ulong virt_page2;
-    tcg_insn_unit *gen_code_buf;
      int gen_code_size, search_size;
  #ifdef CONFIG_PROFILER
      int64_t ti;
@@ -1078,8 +1077,7 @@ TranslationBlock *tb_gen_code(CPUState *cpu,
          tcg_ctx.tb_ctx.tb_invalidated_flag = 1;
      }

-    gen_code_buf = tcg_ctx.code_gen_ptr;
-    tb->tc_ptr = gen_code_buf;
+    tb->tc_ptr = tcg_ctx.code_gen_ptr;

Why get rid of the gen_code_buf variable? You're forcing the compiler to keep reloading the value from memory.

Certainly that's not relevant to passing down TB to tcg_gen_code, and is a separate change that ought to be separately defended.


r~

      tb->cs_base = cs_base;
      tb->flags = flags;
      tb->cflags = cflags;
@@ -1119,11 +1117,11 @@ TranslationBlock *tb_gen_code(CPUState *cpu,
         the tcg optimization currently hidden inside tcg_gen_code.  All
         that should be required is to flush the TBs, allocate a new TB,
         re-initialize it per above, and re-do the actual code generation.  */
-    gen_code_size = tcg_gen_code(&tcg_ctx, gen_code_buf);
+    gen_code_size = tcg_gen_code(&tcg_ctx, tb);
      if (unlikely(gen_code_size < 0)) {
          goto buffer_overflow;
      }
-    search_size = encode_search(tb, (void *)gen_code_buf + gen_code_size);
+    search_size = encode_search(tb, (void *)tb->tc_ptr + gen_code_size);
      if (unlikely(search_size < 0)) {
          goto buffer_overflow;
      }
@@ -1145,7 +1143,7 @@ TranslationBlock *tb_gen_code(CPUState *cpu,
  #endif

      tcg_ctx.code_gen_ptr = (void *)
-        ROUND_UP((uintptr_t)gen_code_buf + gen_code_size + search_size,
+        ROUND_UP((uintptr_t)tb->tc_ptr + gen_code_size + search_size,
                   CODE_GEN_ALIGN);

      /* check next page if needed */



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