Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 1/2] target/arm: kvm64 make guest debug AA32 break point aware

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> writes:

> On 12/13/18 8:55 AM, Alex Bennée wrote:
>>
>> Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> writes:
>>
>>> Hi Alex,
>>>
>>> Thanks again for looking into this.
>>>
>>> On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 at 12:55, Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
>> <snip>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>  int kvm_arch_insert_sw_breakpoint(CPUState *cs, struct kvm_sw_breakpoint *bp)
>>>>  {
>>>> +    CPUARMState *env = &ARM_CPU(cs)->env;
>>>> +    int el = arm_current_el(env);
>>>> +    bool is_aa64 = arm_el_is_aa64(env, el);
>>>> +    const uint32_t *bpi = is_aa64 ? &brk_insn : &bkpt_insn;
>>>> +
>>>>      if (have_guest_debug) {
>>>>          if (cpu_memory_rw_debug(cs, bp->pc, (uint8_t *)&bp->saved_insn, 4, 0) ||
>>>> -            cpu_memory_rw_debug(cs, bp->pc, (uint8_t *)&brk_insn, 4, 1)) {
>>>> +            cpu_memory_rw_debug(cs, bp->pc, (uint8_t *)bpi, 4, 1)) {
>>>
>>> Should we be dealing with endianness here?
>>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> I don't think so - everything eventually ends up (ld|st)n_p which deals
>> with the endianness details.
>
> I think Ard is right.  You need to consider dynamic endianness with
>
>     bswap_code(arm_sctlr_b(env))

*sigh* I guess. It of course still a heuristic that can break because we
don't know if the system will have switched mode by the time it gets to
the breakpoint.

--
Alex Bennée