Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/11] target/arm: Add guarded_pages cpu property for user-only

[Peter Maydell]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 at 12:18, Richard Henderson
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> While waiting for a proper userland ABI, allow static test
> cases to be written assuming that GP is set for all pages.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <address@hidden>
> ---
>  target/arm/cpu.h           |  4 ++++
>  target/arm/cpu64.c         | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  target/arm/translate-a64.c |  8 +++++++-
>  3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

This is OK code-wise but I'm a bit wary of committing it
because then we're stuck with the property forever even
if it turns out to be irrelevant to whatever the userland
ABI eventually is.

thanks
-- PMM