R Richard Henderson #
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On 7/29/21 3:52 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
sh4 kernel default for unaligned accesses seems to be "warn and fixup", not SIGBUS, unless the user changes that by writing to /proc/cpu/alignment or the process changes it via prctl().
We will still need this for load-locked/store-conditional (MOVLI/MOVCO). It appears that the sh4 kernel fails to decode these properly, and will do something ugly, like interpreting MOVLI as a multiple-store instead of a load. There are also other instructions that the kernel does not attempt to handle, such as MAC. I suppose we could begin with turning off TARGET_ALIGNED_ONLY for sh4-linux-user, then re-enabling MO_ALIGN for the atomics (at least). r~