J. Mayer wrote: > It appears that some targets may need more than the 2 "standard" > execution modes. > For example, PowerPC 64 has 3 execution modes: hypervisor, supervisor > and problem state. > Another example is alpha which has 4 execution modes (even if Linux > seems to use only two of them). > > My proposal is to increase the number of the tlb_tables entries in a way > that would be selected at compile time in order to keep good > performances for other emulated targets that do not need this feature. > > You'll find attached a short patch implementing it. With this patch, one > would just have to properly define CPU_MEM_INDEX and is_user flags for > those targets. > > Please comment.
Looks good to me, as it will help to implement MIPS supervisor mode some day. :-) Thiemo
