diff --git a/accel/tcg/cpu-exec.c b/accel/tcg/cpu-exec.c
index 356fe34..8927092 100644
--- a/accel/tcg/cpu-exec.c
+++ b/accel/tcg/cpu-exec.c
@@ -909,64 +909,10 @@
 
 /* main execution loop */
 
-int cpu_exec(CPUState *cpu)
+static int __attribute__((noinline))
+cpu_exec_loop(CPUState *cpu, SyncClocks *sc)
 {
     int ret;
-    SyncClocks sc = { 0 };
-
-    /* replay_interrupt may need current_cpu */
-    current_cpu = cpu;
-
-    if (cpu_handle_halt(cpu)) {
-        return EXCP_HALTED;
-    }
-
-    rcu_read_lock();
-
-    cpu_exec_enter(cpu);
-
-    /* Calculate difference between guest clock and host clock.
-     * This delay includes the delay of the last cycle, so
-     * what we have to do is sleep until it is 0. As for the
-     * advance/delay we gain here, we try to fix it next time.
-     */
-    init_delay_params(&sc, cpu);
-
-    /* prepare setjmp context for exception handling */
-    if (sigsetjmp(cpu->jmp_env, 0) != 0) {
-#if defined(__clang__)
-        /*
-         * Some compilers wrongly smash all local variables after
-         * siglongjmp (the spec requires that only non-volatile locals
-         * which are changed between the sigsetjmp and siglongjmp are
-         * permitted to be trashed). There were bug reports for gcc
-         * 4.5.0 and clang.  The bug is fixed in all versions of gcc
-         * that we support, but is still unfixed in clang:
-         *   https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21183
-         *
-         * Reload an essential local variable here for those compilers.
-         * Newer versions of gcc would complain about this code (-Wclobbered),
-         * so we only perform the workaround for clang.
-         */
-        cpu = current_cpu;
-#else
-        /* Non-buggy compilers preserve this; assert the correct value. */
-        g_assert(cpu == current_cpu);
-#endif
-
-#ifndef CONFIG_SOFTMMU
-        clear_helper_retaddr();
-        if (have_mmap_lock()) {
-            mmap_unlock();
-        }
-#endif
-        if (qemu_mutex_iothread_locked()) {
-            qemu_mutex_unlock_iothread();
-        }
-        qemu_plugin_disable_mem_helpers(cpu);
-
-        assert_no_pages_locked();
-    }
 
     /* if an exception is pending, we execute it here */
     while (!cpu_handle_exception(cpu, &ret)) {
@@ -1033,9 +979,60 @@
 
             /* Try to align the host and virtual clocks
                if the guest is in advance */
-            align_clocks(&sc, cpu);
+            align_clocks(sc, cpu);
         }
     }
+    return ret;
+}
+
+static int cpu_exec_setjmp(CPUState *cpu, SyncClocks *sc)
+{
+    /* Prepare setjmp context for exception handling. */
+    if (unlikely(sigsetjmp(cpu->jmp_env, 0) != 0)) {
+        /* Non-buggy compilers preserve this; assert the correct value. */
+        g_assert(cpu == current_cpu);
+
+#ifndef CONFIG_SOFTMMU
+        clear_helper_retaddr();
+        if (have_mmap_lock()) {
+            mmap_unlock();
+        }
+#endif
+        if (qemu_mutex_iothread_locked()) {
+            qemu_mutex_unlock_iothread();
+        }
+        qemu_plugin_disable_mem_helpers(cpu);
+
+        assert_no_pages_locked();
+    }
+
+    return cpu_exec_loop(cpu, sc);
+}
+
+int cpu_exec(CPUState *cpu)
+{
+    int ret;
+    SyncClocks sc = { 0 };
+
+    /* replay_interrupt may need current_cpu */
+    current_cpu = cpu;
+
+    if (cpu_handle_halt(cpu)) {
+        return EXCP_HALTED;
+    }
+
+    rcu_read_lock();
+    cpu_exec_enter(cpu);
+
+    /*
+     * Calculate difference between guest clock and host clock.
+     * This delay includes the delay of the last cycle, so
+     * what we have to do is sleep until it is 0. As for the
+     * advance/delay we gain here, we try to fix it next time.
+     */
+    init_delay_params(&sc, cpu);
+
+    ret = cpu_exec_setjmp(cpu, &sc);
 
     cpu_exec_exit(cpu);
     rcu_read_unlock();