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Subject: Re: gcc 4.4 miscompiling cpu_exec() ?
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:58:47 -0000
From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Message-Id: <4B841757.3070808@redhat.com>
To: Jay Foad <jay.foad@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 02/23/2010 03:50 PM, Jay Foad wrote:
> I'm building QEMU mipsel-linux-user with Ubuntu's GCC 4.4 on an x86
> host. Whenever I try to run a trivial MIPS executable, QEMU segfaults
> in cpu_loop() shortly after the call to cpu_mips_exec().
>
> The problem seems to be that cpu_exec() doesn't preserve ebp. It tries to:
>
>      saved_env_reg = (host_reg_t) env;
>
> where env is a global variable decorated with asm("ebp"). This saves
> ebp to the stack, but later on, in some function inlined into
> cpu_exec(), the value on the stack gets overwritten with something
> else.

Can you try this patch:


and if it works, possibly only each hunk of it?

Paolo


diff --git a/cpu-exec.c b/cpu-exec.c
index 51aa416..bfaf908 100644
--- a/cpu-exec.c
+++ b/cpu-exec.c
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ static void cpu_handle_debug_exception(CPUState *env)

  int cpu_exec(CPUState *env1)
  {
-    host_reg_t saved_env_reg;
+    volatile host_reg_t saved_env_reg;
      int ret, interrupt_request;
      TranslationBlock *tb;
      uint8_t *tc_ptr;
@@ -230,8 +230,8 @@ int cpu_exec(CPUState *env1)
         value, so that files not including target-xyz/exec.h are free to
         use it.  */
      QEMU_BUILD_BUG_ON (sizeof (saved_env_reg) != sizeof (env));
-    saved_env_reg = (host_reg_t) env;
      asm("");
+    saved_env_reg = (host_reg_t) env;
      env = env1;

  #if defined(TARGET_I386)