Re: [Qemu-devel] SPARC64: immediate segfault on startup with git mastervery

[Avi Kivity]

On 03/18/2012 11:51 AM, Blue Swirl wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 09:44, Avi Kivity <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 03/18/2012 04:01 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> >> Hi Avi/Blue,
> >>
> >> I've just updated to git master and found that SPARC64 is broken
> >> again; a git bisect shows the following commit causes this:
> >>
> >>
> >> commit f3705d53296d78b14f5823472ae2add16a25a0a5
> >> Author: Avi Kivity <address@hidden>
> >> Date:   Thu Mar 8 16:16:34 2012 +0200
> >>
> >>     memory: make phys_page_find() return an unadjusted section
> >>
> >>     We'd like to store the section index in the iotlb, so we can't
> >>     adjust it before returning.  Return an unadjusted section and
> >>     instead introduce section_addr(), which does the adjustment later.
> >>
> >>     Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <address@hidden>
> >>
> >>
> >> The symptom is that qemu-system-sparc64 segfaults immediately on
> >> startup (note this is with an OpenBIOS image built from SVN r1048).
> >> I've included a couple of backtraces below:
> >>
> >
> > Please try the attached patch.
>
> I tried this approach instead, seems to work 

IMO, my patch is better.  tlb_set_page() should not deal with offsets
within a page.

If you prefer your approach, I suggest masking the address up front in
the beginning of tlb_set_page() instead.

> (except Sparc32, Sparc64
> and PPC displays are still not refreshed correctly).

Details about this please.


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