Typically when someone uses GetPointer, it's because they want to read
from a range of memory. GetPointer is unsafe to use for this. While it
does check that the passed-in address is valid, it doesn't know the size
of the range that will be accessed, so it can't check that the end
address is valid. The safer alternative GetPointerForRange should be
used instead.
Note that there is still the problem of many callers not checking for
nullptr.
This is part 2 of a series of changes removing the use of GetPointer
throughout the code base. After this, VideoCommon is the one major part
of Dolphin that remains.
Dolphin's JITs have a minor terminology problem: The term "fastmem" can
refer to either the system of switching between a fast path and a slow
path using backpatching, or to the fast path itself. To hopefully make
things clearer, I'm adding some new terms, defining the old and new
terms as follows:
Fastmem: The system of switching from a fast path to a slow path by
backpatching when an invalid memory access occurs.
Fast access: A code path that accesses guest memory without calling C++
code.
Slow access: A code path that accesses guest memory by calling C++ code.
Some code paths in EmuCodeBlock.cpp that were checking fastmem_arena
should really also be checking m_enable_dcache.
Because JitArm64 centralizes more or less all memory access to the
EmitBackpatchRoutine function and because that function already
contained a check, JitArm64 works fine without the additional checks
added by this commit. Regardless, I added the checks to MMU.cpp instead
of EmuCodeBlock.cpp where applicable so they would be available to
JitArm64. Maybe one day JitArm64 will need them if its code gets
restructured.
This fixes a problem I was having where using frame advance with the
debugger open would frequently cause panic alerts about invalid addresses
due to the CPU thread changing MSR.DR while the host thread was trying
to access memory.
To aid in tracking down all the places where we weren't properly locking
the CPU, I've created a new type (in Core.h) that you have to pass as a
reference or pointer to functions that require running as the CPU thread.
Now that we've flipped the C++20 switch, let's start making use of
the nice new <bit> header.
I'm planning on handling this move away from BitUtils.h incrementally
in a series of PRs. There may be a few functions remaining in
BitUtils.h by the end that C++20 doesn't have any equivalents for.
