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[PATCH 06/10] docs/emulation: expand warning about semihosting
From: |
Alex Bennée |
Subject: |
[PATCH 06/10] docs/emulation: expand warning about semihosting |
Date: |
Wed, 15 Nov 2023 20:55:38 +0000 |
A surprising feature of calls like SYS_READC is this can cause QEMU to
indefinitely block as there is no handling for EOF.
Clarifies: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1963
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
---
docs/about/emulation.rst | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/about/emulation.rst b/docs/about/emulation.rst
index 0ad0b86f0d..a2eefe3f3f 100644
--- a/docs/about/emulation.rst
+++ b/docs/about/emulation.rst
@@ -129,8 +129,9 @@ causing most hypervisors to trap and fault on them.
.. warning::
Semihosting inherently bypasses any isolation there may be between
the guest and the host. As a result a program using semihosting can
- happily trash your host system. You should only ever run trusted
- code with semihosting enabled.
+ happily trash your host system. Some semihosting calls (e.g.
+ ``SYS_READC``) can block execution indefinitely. You should only
+ ever run trusted code with semihosting enabled.
Redirection
~~~~~~~~~~~
--
2.39.2
- [PATCH 00/10] random fixes for 8.2 (tests, plugins, docs, semihosting), Alex Bennée, 2023/11/15
- [PATCH 02/10] .gitlab-ci.d/cirrus: Upgrade macOS to 13 (Ventura), Alex Bennée, 2023/11/15
- [PATCH 05/10] tests/tcg: fixup Aarch64 semiconsole test, Alex Bennée, 2023/11/15
- [PATCH 03/10] tests/docker: merge debian-native with debian-amd64, Alex Bennée, 2023/11/15
- [PATCH 04/10] plugins: fix win plugin tests on cross compile, Alex Bennée, 2023/11/15
- [PATCH 06/10] docs/emulation: expand warning about semihosting,
Alex Bennée <=
- [PATCH 08/10] testing: move arm system tests into their own folder, Alex Bennée, 2023/11/15
- [PATCH 07/10] hw/core: skip loading debug on all failures, Alex Bennée, 2023/11/15
- [PATCH 01/10] tests/docker: replace fedora-i386 with debian-i686, Alex Bennée, 2023/11/15
- [PATCH 10/10] tests/tcg: enable semiconsole test for Arm, Alex Bennée, 2023/11/15
- [PATCH 09/10] tests/tcg: enable arm softmmu tests, Alex Bennée, 2023/11/15