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From: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael W. Bombardieri" <mb@ii.net>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu 1.6.1
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 11:44:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <526CEE86.1020000@weilnetz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <526CB88D.6030209@redhat.com>

Am 27.10.2013 07:54, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
> Here is the code with annotations
>
>      broken                                   works
>   -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>      push   %ebx
>      sub    $0x18,%esp                        sub    $0x1c,%esp               
>                                               mov    %ebx,0x14(%esp)          
>                                               mov    %esi,0x18(%esp)          
>                             
>      movl   $0x6d62a8,(%esp)                  movl   $0x6d62a8,(%esp)         
>      mov    0x24(%esp),%ebx                   mov    0x24(%esp),%ebx              ebx = to;
>      call   ___emutls_get_address             call   ___emutls_get_address        eax = &current;
>                             
>                                               mov    (%eax),%esi                  esi = current;
>                             
>      mov    %ebx,(%eax)                       mov    %ebx,(%eax)                  current = to;
>
>      mov    0x28(%esp),%eax                   mov    0x28(%esp),%eax              eax = action
>      mov    %eax,0x24(%ebx)                   mov    %eax,0x24(%ebx)              to->action = action
>      mov    0x20(%ebx),%eax                   mov    0x20(%ebx),%eax              eax = to->fiber
>      mov    %eax,(%esp)                       mov    %eax,(%esp)                  "push" to->fiber
>      call   *0x835fc0                         call   *0x835fc0                    SwitchToFiber(to->fiber)
>      sub    $0x4,%esp                         sub    $0x4,%esp                    undo PASCAL calling convention
>                             
> **   mov    0x20(%esp),%eax                                                       eax = from
>      mov    0x24(%eax),%eax                   mov    0x24(%esi),%eax              eax = from->action
>                             
>                                               mov    0x14(%esp),%ebx          
>                                               mov    0x18(%esp),%esi          
>      add    $0x18,%esp                        add    $0x1c,%esp               
>      pop    %ebx                                                              
>      ret                                      ret                             
>
>
> I think the problem is that 0x20(%esp) gets somehow corrupted at the
> instruction I highlighted with **.
>
> The simplest fix then would be to add a barrier() before and after
> SwitchToFiber.
>
> Paolo

I tried adding two barrier() statements around SwitchToFiber().
That change did not result in different assembler code (=> unchanged
behaviour, QEMU still raises an assertion).

Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-27 10:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-23  7:39 [Qemu-devel] qemu 1.6.1 Michael W. Bombardieri
2013-10-23  9:00 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-10-23 20:26   ` Stefan Weil
2013-10-24 10:38     ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-10-24 16:37       ` Stefan Weil
2013-10-24 21:47         ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-10-26  9:51           ` Stefan Weil
2013-10-27  6:54             ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-10-27 10:44               ` Stefan Weil [this message]
2013-10-27 15:38               ` Stefan Weil
2014-06-23 14:39             ` [Qemu-devel] broken win32 coroutines (was Re: qemu 1.6.1) Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-24  1:41               ` Michael W. Bombardieri
2014-06-24  5:22                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-25  6:48                   ` Michael W. Bombardieri

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