Re: [PATCH 2/2] target/arm: Fix unaligned mte checks

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 2 Apr 2021 at 06:42, Richard Henderson
<richard.henderson@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> We were incorrectly assuming that only the first byte of an MTE access
> is checked against the tags.  But per the ARM, unaligned accesses are
> pre-decomposed into single-byte accesses.  So by the time we reach the
> actual MTE check in the ARM pseudocode, all accesses are aligned.
>
> Therefore, drop mte_check1, since we cannot know a priori that an
> access is aligned.  Rename mte_checkN to mte_check, which now handles
> all accesses.  Rename mte_probe1 to mte_probe, and use a common helper.
>
> Drop the computation of the faulting nth element, since all accesses
> can be considered to devolve to bytes, and simply compute the faulting
> address.
>
> Buglink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1921948
> Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>

This is a pretty chunky patch for this point in the release cycle.
I don't suppose there's a way to make it more digestible for review?

thanks
-- PMM