Re: [Qemu-devel] TCG assertion with qemu-system-mipsel

["Aurélien Jarno" <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 11:05:15AM +0900, Yeongkyoon Lee wrote:
> On 03/05/2013 11:18 PM, Aurélien Jarno wrote:
> >On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 05:37:31PM +0100, Aurélien Jarno wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 11:10:18PM +0100, Stefan Weil wrote:
> >>>This assertion occured with latest git master:
> >>>
> >>>qemu-system-mipsel: /src/qemu/tcg/tcg-op.h:2589:
> >>>  tcg_gen_goto_tb: Assertion `(tcg_ctx.goto_tb_issue_mask & (1 << idx))
> >>>== 0' failed.
> >>>Aborted
> >>>
> >>>QEMU was built with --enable-debug and running a Debian MIPS Lenny (NFS
> >>>root).
> >>>The assertion happened when running "apt-get update" in the guest.
> >>>
> >>Is it something reproductible or more or less random? Have you Cc:ed
> >>Richard because it's related to the latest patches?
> >>
> >>On my side I am experiencing random segfaults in various guests (at
> >>least PowerPC, MIPS, SH4 and ARM). I have found a way to bisect it, even
> >>if it is quite long (building Perl + the testsuite). Currently I know
> >>that 1.3 is affected, while 1.2 is not.
> >>
> >I have found that the issue comes from the following commits, which
> >unfortunately are not bisectable one by one (though it won't change the
> >results a lot):
> >
> >     commit b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699
> >     Author: Yeongkyoon Lee <yeongkyoon.lee@samsung.com>
> >     Date:   Wed Oct 31 16:04:25 2012 +0900
> >         tcg: Optimize qemu_ld/st by generating slow paths at the end of a block
> >         Add optimized TCG qemu_ld/st generation which locates the code of TLB miss
> >         cases at the end of a block after generating the other IRs.
> >         Currently, this optimization supports only i386 and x86_64 hosts.
> >         Signed-off-by: Yeongkyoon Lee <yeongkyoon.lee@samsung.com>
> >         Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
> >     commit fdbb84d1332ae0827d60f1a2ca03c7d5678c6edd
> >     Author: Yeongkyoon Lee <yeongkyoon.lee@samsung.com>
> >     Date:   Wed Oct 31 16:04:24 2012 +0900
> >         tcg: Add extended GETPC mechanism for MMU helpers with ldst optimization
> >         Add GETPC_EXT which is used by MMU helpers to selectively calculate the code
> >         address of accessing guest memory when called from a qemu_ld/st optimized code
> >         or a C function. Currently, it supports only i386 and x86-64 hosts.
> >         Signed-off-by: Yeongkyoon Lee <yeongkyoon.lee@samsung.com>
> >         Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
> >     commit 32761257c0b9fa7ee04d2871a6e48a41f119c469
> >     Author: Yeongkyoon Lee <yeongkyoon.lee@samsung.com>
> >     Date:   Wed Oct 31 16:04:23 2012 +0900
> >         configure: Add CONFIG_QEMU_LDST_OPTIMIZATION for TCG qemu_ld/st optimization
> >         Enable CONFIG_QEMU_LDST_OPTIMIZATION for TCG qemu_ld/st optimization only when
> >         a host is i386 or x86_64.
> >         Signed-off-by: Yeongkyoon Lee <yeongkyoon.lee@samsung.com>
> >         Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
> >
> >I will try to understand why.
> >
> >
> 
> Hi Aurélien,
> Do you mean that those random segfaults occurred only when
> configured with "--enable-debug"?
> Although I cannot see how my commits affect debug built image at a
> glance, I'll do double-check.
> Thanks.

The problem is there even without configuring QEMU with --enable-debug.
It justs doesn't happens very often, and very randomly. The only way to
reproduce it each time is to launch a big task in the guest (for me
building Perl) and see if it completes or now. It can take up to one
hour until it happens.

I should precise that the segfault is on the guest side.

I have tried to look at your patches, and so far I haven't found the
issue. It seems the two first patches are fine, ie I have verified the
return address is always correctly computed.

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