[Qemu-devel] a strange segmentation fault

[Heng Yin <hyin@ece.cmu.edu>]

Hi QEMU developers,

I'm running into a strange problem when I add some my own stuff in QEMU.
If I add a function call in the following position, QEMU will crash 
immediately after execution.

In target-i386/op.c:
void OPPROTO op_jnz_T0_label(void)
{
     helper_test(T0); //my own function
     if (T0)
         GOTO_LABEL_PARAM(1);
     FORCE_RET();
}

I define this function in target-i386/helper.c:

int helper_test(int t0)
{
     return 100+t0;
}

I try it on the two versions: 0.8.2 and 0.8.0. The problem appears no 
matter what kqemu option (-kernel-kqemu -no-kqmeu, or none) is used and 
what guest os (linux or winxp) is to launch.

I got the following message from gdb:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1212991808 (LWP 28612)]
0x00000001 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00000001 in ?? ()
#1  0x080bac6c in cpu_x86_exec (env1=0x40)
     at /home/hyin/qemu-0.8.2/cpu-exec.c:772
#2  0x08050a62 in main_loop () at /home/hyin/qemu-0.8.2/vl.c:5069
#3  0x08051fe2 in main (argc=3324, argv=0x8)
     at /home/hyin/qemu-0.8.2/vl.c:6221
(gdb)

Interestingly, if I change the function helper_test to take no 
arguments, the fault will be gone.

Can anybody give any hints of what may cause this fault and how to solve it?

Thanks,
Heng