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Commit 05903f03 authored by Peter Maydell's avatar Peter Maydell
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target/arm: Implement v8.1M branch-future insns (as NOPs)


v8.1M implements a new 'branch future' feature, which is a
set of instructions that request the CPU to perform a branch
"in the future", when it reaches a particular execution address.
In hardware, the expected implementation is that the information
about the branch location and destination is cached and then
acted upon when execution reaches the specified address.
However the architecture permits an implementation to discard
this cached information at any point, and so guest code must
always include a normal branch insn at the branch point as
a fallback. In particular, an implementation is specifically
permitted to treat all BF insns as NOPs (which is equivalent
to discarding the cached information immediately).

For QEMU, implementing this caching of branch information
would be complicated and would not improve the speed of
execution at all, so we make the IMPDEF choice to implement
all BF insns as NOPs.

Reviewed-by: default avatarRichard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-id: 20201019151301.2046-7-peter.maydell@linaro.org
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