Re: [Qemu-devel] [sparc64] qemu crashes after the "OpenBIOS for Sparc64" banner is printed

["Blue Swirl" <blauwirbel@gmail.com>]

On 8/29/08, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> > Surprisingly it was moving of do_interrupt to helper.c that caused the
>  > bug. Moving it back to op_helper.c allows Sparc64 to boot. I'm still
>  > trying to understand the real cause of the bug and to find if there is
>  > some other way of fixing this. This kind of voodoo makes me nervous.
>
>
> do_interrupt calls change_pstate, which relies on global register state.
>  Global register state is only valid when called directly from translated code
>  or other code that includes exec.h.
>
>  You should never call code in op_helper.c from outside that file (or
>  cpu-exec.h). The easy way to enforce this is to put teh declarations for
>  functions defined in op_helper.h in exec.h, not helper.h or cpu.h. Failure to
>  follow this rule results in bugs like the one you've encountered.
>
>  helper.h is included multiple times, so should really just contain DEF_HELPER
>  statements.

Thanks, great advice. I'll check all exported functions.