Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v7 15/16] target-arm: cpu64: use custom set_excl hook

2016-02-18 Thread Alex Bennée
Alvise Rigo writes: > In aarch64 the LDXP/STXP instructions allow to perform up to 128 bits > exclusive accesses. However, due to a softmmu limitation, such wide > accesses are not allowed. > > To workaround this limitation, we need to support LoadLink instructions > that cover at least 128 cons

[Qemu-devel] [RFC v7 15/16] target-arm: cpu64: use custom set_excl hook

2016-01-29 Thread Alvise Rigo
In aarch64 the LDXP/STXP instructions allow to perform up to 128 bits exclusive accesses. However, due to a softmmu limitation, such wide accesses are not allowed. To workaround this limitation, we need to support LoadLink instructions that cover at least 128 consecutive bits (see the next patch f