On 2017-07-05 14:23, Richard Henderson wrote:
> For uniprocessors, SH4 uses optimistic restartable atomic sequences.
> Upon an interrupt, a real kernel would simply notice magic values in
> the registers and reset the PC to the start of the sequence.
> 
> For QEMU, we cannot do this in quite the same way.  Instead, we notice
> the normal start of such a sequence (mov #-x,r15), and start a new TB
> that can be executed under cpu_exec_step_atomic.
> 
> Reported-by: Bruno Haible  <br...@clisp.org>
> LP: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1701971
> Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <r...@twiddle.net>
> ---
>  target/sh4/cpu.h       |  21 ++++++--
>  target/sh4/helper.h    |   1 +
>  target/sh4/op_helper.c |   6 +++
>  target/sh4/translate.c | 137 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  4 files changed, 147 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

I haven't reviewed this patch in details, but note that it breaks
booting a system under qemu-system.

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