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From: "Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
To: Alex Barcelo <abarcelo@ac.upc.edu>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Signal management in qemu-user
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 00:50:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FBD699E.8000403@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFKAgTcTtsKUVwcqB=+1Mfq+Xz+1Spc440tcBYtdYk=YfVzHUg@mail.gmail.com>

Am 24.05.2012 00:38, schrieb Alex Barcelo:
>>> Running it in a i386 machine works and gives an output of "0x0d\n0x20".
>>> Running it in a qemu-i386 segfaults. Because the self-modifying code
>>> raises a SIGSEGV in the qemu (I understand that it is the method used by
>>> qemu to handle self-modifying code). But the sigprocmask disables the
>>> SIGSEGV and the qemu-user... does nothing to avoid it. So the SIGSEGV is
>>> unmanaged and breaks the program.
>>
>> Alex has the following SIGSEGV workaround queued for our openSUSE package:
>> http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/agraf.git/commit/0760e24b52ff20a328f168ed23b52c9b9c0fd28f
>>
>> Don't know if it fixes your specific problem. Peter had some ideas how
>> to refactor signal handling but iirc didn't have time to work on it himself.
> 
> Is it similar at all?

Peter answered that already: No, it isn't. Sorry for the confusion.

Andreas

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-23 22:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-17  9:23 [Qemu-devel] Signal management in qemu-user Alex Barcelo
2012-05-17 13:33 ` Andreas Färber
2012-05-17 13:42   ` Peter Maydell
2012-05-17 14:16     ` Andreas Färber
2012-05-23 22:38   ` Alex Barcelo
2012-05-23 22:50     ` Andreas Färber [this message]
2012-05-23 23:04     ` Peter Maydell
2012-05-24  7:19       ` Alex Barcelo

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