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target-sh4: ignore ocbp and ocbwb instructions

Message ID 1325967461-2000-1-git-send-email-aurelien@aurel32.net
State New
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Aurelien Jarno Jan. 7, 2012, 8:17 p.m. UTC 
ocbp and ocbwb controls the writeback of a cache line to memory. They
are supposed to do nothing in case of a cache miss. Given QEMU only
partially emulate caches, it is safe to ignore these instructions.

This fixes a kernel oops when trying to access an rtl8139 NIC with
recent versions.

Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
---
 target-sh4/translate.c |   14 +++-----------
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/target-sh4/translate.c b/target-sh4/translate.c
index 2ecb236..aacf96d 100644
--- a/target-sh4/translate.c
+++ b/target-sh4/translate.c
@@ -1652,18 +1652,10 @@  static void _decode_opc(DisasContext * ctx)
 	}
 	return;
     case 0x00a3:		/* ocbp @Rn */
-	{
-	    TCGv dummy = tcg_temp_new();
-	    tcg_gen_qemu_ld32s(dummy, REG(B11_8), ctx->memidx);
-	    tcg_temp_free(dummy);
-	}
-	return;
     case 0x00b3:		/* ocbwb @Rn */
-	{
-	    TCGv dummy = tcg_temp_new();
-	    tcg_gen_qemu_ld32s(dummy, REG(B11_8), ctx->memidx);
-	    tcg_temp_free(dummy);
-	}
+        /* These instructions are supposed to do nothing in case of
+           a cache miss. Given that we only partially emulate caches
+           it is safe to simply ignore them. */
 	return;
     case 0x0083:		/* pref @Rn */
 	return;