exec.c: Clarify comment about tlb_flush() flush_global parameter

Clarify the comment about tlb_flush()'s flush_global parameter,
so it is clearer what it does and why it is OK that the implementation
currently ignores it.

Reviewed-by: Andreas F=C3=A4rber <afaerber@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Peter Maydell 2012-01-17 13:23:13 +00:00 committed by Anthony Liguori
parent 23704102ba
commit 771124e1a6

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@ -1876,8 +1876,18 @@ static CPUTLBEntry s_cputlb_empty_entry = {
.addend = -1,
};
/* NOTE: if flush_global is true, also flush global entries (not
implemented yet) */
/* NOTE:
* If flush_global is true (the usual case), flush all tlb entries.
* If flush_global is false, flush (at least) all tlb entries not
* marked global.
*
* Since QEMU doesn't currently implement a global/not-global flag
* for tlb entries, at the moment tlb_flush() will also flush all
* tlb entries in the flush_global == false case. This is OK because
* CPU architectures generally permit an implementation to drop
* entries from the TLB at any time, so flushing more entries than
* required is only an efficiency issue, not a correctness issue.
*/
void tlb_flush(CPUState *env, int flush_global)
{
int i;