Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] linux-user: problem with mmap_find_vma

[Richard Henderson]

On 12/13/2009 08:14 PM, Richard Henderson wrote:
> With host x86_64 target alpha, a trivial recompile started producing
> "MMU faults". Eventually, I determined that adding "-B 0x100000000" was
> enough to produce the fault with the original working executable. I
> expect, but have not verified, that a similar failure can be elicited
> with any 64-bit host and any target using such a large explicit base.
>
> The cause is that the default address used by mmap_find_vma may not be
> inside the area defined for use by the guest by GUEST_BASE. Certainly
> this patch fixes the failure I was seeing.
>
> I cannot see though all the macro ugliness to understand what happens
> when GUEST_BASE is not in use to know what needs happening there. Please
> feel free to edit the ??? comment to match reality.

... Well, while I do think this patch is still a good idea,
since one hardly likes to see things like

  start_stack 0xffffffff04012000

it seems to simply have moved the MMU data fault around; it's back with 
the rest of the patch set applied.  :-(


r~