[PATCH] target/riscv: Exit current TB after an sfence.vma

Idan Horowitz idan.horowitz at gmail.com
Wed Mar 30 10:10:28 PDT 2022


On Wed, 30 Mar 2022 at 19:11, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at dabbelt.com> wrote:
>
>
> Presumably you mean "revert" here?  That might be the right way to go,
> just to avoid breaking users (even if we fix the kernel bug, it'll take
> a while to get everyone to update).  That said, this smells like the
> sort of thing that's going to crop up at arbitrary times in dynamic
> systems so while a revert looks like it'd work around the boot issue we
> might be making more headaches for folks down the road.
>

The opposite in fact, I did not suggest to revert it, but rather undo
the revert (as Alistair already removed it from the apply-next tree),
since my original patch fixes buggy behaviour that is blocking the
testing of some embedded software on QEMU.

Idan Horowitz



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