[PATCH 00/11] KVM: PPC: reconstruct mmio emulation with analyse_instr()

[Simon Guo]

On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 03:31:17PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 07:54:33PM +0800, wei.guo.simon at gmail.com wrote:
> > From: Simon Guo <wei.guo.simon at gmail.com>
> > 
> > We already have analyse_instr() which analyzes instructions for the instruction
> > type, size, addtional flags, etc. What kvmppc_emulate_loadstore() did is somehow
> > duplicated and it will be good to utilize analyse_instr() to reconstruct the
> > code. The advantage is that the code logic will be shared and more clean to be 
> > maintained.
> > 
> > This patch series reconstructs kvmppc_emulate_loadstore() for various load/store
> > instructions. 
> > 
> > The testcase locates at:
> > https://github.com/justdoitqd/publicFiles/blob/master/test_mmio.c
> > 
> > - Tested at both PR/HV KVM. 
> > - Also tested with little endian host & big endian guest.
> > 
> > Tested instruction list: 
> > 	lbz lbzu lbzx ld ldbrx
> > 	ldu ldx lfd lfdu lfdx
> > 	lfiwax lfiwzx lfs lfsu lfsx
> > 	lha lhau lhax lhbrx lhz
> > 	lhzu lhzx lvx lwax lwbrx
> > 	lwz lwzu lwzx lxsdx lxsiwax
> > 	lxsiwzx lxsspx lxvd2x lxvdsx lxvw4x
> > 	stb stbu stbx std stdbrx
> > 	stdu stdx stfd stfdu stfdx
> > 	stfiwx stfs stfsx sth sthbrx
> > 	sthu sthx stvx stw stwbrx
> > 	stwu stwx stxsdx stxsiwx stxsspx
> > 	stxvd2x stxvw4x
> 
> Thanks for doing this.  It's nice to see that this makes the code 260
> lines smaller.
> 
> I have some comments on the individual patches, which I will give in
> replies to those patches.
> 
> Paul.
Thanks for those good comment. I will check them.

BR,
- Simon