target/xtensa: extra debug info for "xtensa exe" failures

- Read and display EXCCAUSE on exe error
- Clean up error messages
- Clarify "xtensa exe" documentation

Signed-off-by: ianst <ianst@cadence.com>
Change-Id: I90ed39f6afb6543c0c873301501435384b4dccbe
Reviewed-on: https://review.openocd.org/c/openocd/+/7982
Tested-by: jenkins
Reviewed-by: Antonio Borneo <borneo.antonio@gmail.com>

2 files changed, 17 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/doc/openocd.texi b/doc/openocd.texi
index 53730ea..e4d4dc5 100644
--- a/doc/openocd.texi
+++ b/doc/openocd.texi
@@ -11600,13 +11600,14 @@ This feature is not well implemented and tested yet.
 @end deffn
 
 @deffn {Command} {xtensa exe} <ascii-encoded hexadecimal instruction bytes>
-Execute arbitrary instruction(s) provided as an ascii string.  The string represents an integer
-number of instruction bytes, thus its length must be even.
+Execute one arbitrary instruction provided as an ascii string. The string represents an integer
+number of instruction bytes, thus its length must be even. The instruction can be of any width
+that is valid for the Xtensa core configuration.
 @end deffn
 
 @deffn {Command} {xtensa dm} (address) [value]
-Read or write Xtensa Debug Module (DM) registers.  @var{address} is required for both reads
-and writes and is a 4-byte-aligned value typically between 0 and 0x3ffc.  @var{value} is specified
+Read or write Xtensa Debug Module (DM) registers. @var{address} is required for both reads
+and writes and is a 4-byte-aligned value typically between 0 and 0x3ffc. @var{value} is specified
 only for write accesses.
 @end deffn
 
diff --git a/src/target/xtensa/xtensa.c b/src/target/xtensa/xtensa.c
index d2ca32c..ab3bfbb 100644
--- a/src/target/xtensa/xtensa.c
+++ b/src/target/xtensa/xtensa.c
@@ -3483,15 +3483,21 @@ static COMMAND_HELPER(xtensa_cmd_exe_do, struct target *target)
 	LOG_TARGET_DEBUG(target, "execute stub: %s", CMD_ARGV[0]);
 	xtensa_queue_exec_ins_wide(xtensa, ops, oplen);	/* Handles endian-swap */
 	status = xtensa_dm_queue_execute(&xtensa->dbg_mod);
-	if (status != ERROR_OK)
-		LOG_TARGET_ERROR(target, "TIE queue execute: %d\n", status);
-	status = xtensa_core_status_check(target);
-	if (status != ERROR_OK)
-		LOG_TARGET_ERROR(target, "TIE instr execute: %d\n", status);
+	if (status != ERROR_OK) {
+		LOG_TARGET_ERROR(target, "exec: queue error %d", status);
+	} else {
+		status = xtensa_core_status_check(target);
+		if (status != ERROR_OK)
+			LOG_TARGET_ERROR(target, "exec: status error %d", status);
+	}
 
 	/* Reread register cache and restore saved regs after instruction execution */
 	if (xtensa_fetch_all_regs(target) != ERROR_OK)
-		LOG_TARGET_ERROR(target, "%s: Failed to fetch register cache (post-exec).", target_name(target));
+		LOG_TARGET_ERROR(target, "post-exec: register fetch error");
+	if (status != ERROR_OK) {
+		LOG_TARGET_ERROR(target, "post-exec: EXCCAUSE 0x%02" PRIx32,
+			xtensa_reg_get(target, XT_REG_IDX_EXCCAUSE));
+	}
 	xtensa_reg_set(target, XT_REG_IDX_EXCCAUSE, exccause);
 	xtensa_reg_set(target, XT_REG_IDX_CPENABLE, cpenable);
 	return status;