On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 10:05:58PM +0300, Julia Suvorova via Qemu-devel wrote:
On 16.01.2019 0:51, Alistair Francis wrote:
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 7:04 AM Julia Suvorova via Qemu-devel
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If the memory is set using a file, and PC is specified on the command
line, it will be overwritten with the value 'entry'. This is not only
illogical, but also incorrect, because the load_ * functions do not take
into account the specifics of the ARM-M PC.
How does this come up?
I see that the value of entry will force overwrite the PC addr, but
doesn't force_raw fix that? Is there a common use case of loading an
ELF/uimage but having to manually specify a start address?
generic_loader_reset() is called after arm_cpu_reset() and damages PC
(it is wrong to call arm_cpu_set_pc() with entry to set ARM PC reset
value). Therefore, I tried to configure PC manually and ran into this
problem.
By the way, I do not know the right way to fix the original issue. Try
to replace generic_loader_reset() with the device reset function or
change the reset order or transfer PC reset value setting to a separate
function and associate it with cpu. What do you think about it?
generic_loader_reset() calls cpu_reset(s->cpu) followed by
CPUClass->set_pc(s->cpu, s->addr).
ARM's arm_cpu_set_pc() doesn't special-case the Thumb bit (that's only
done in arm_cpu_reset()) so we end up with an invalid PC for Thumb mode
addresses.
Maybe the following arm_cpu_reset() code should be moved to
arm_cpu_set_pc():
env->regs[15] = initial_pc & ~1;
env->thumb = initial_pc & 1;
Then arm_cpu_reset() can call arm_cpu_set_pc() instead of duplicating
this code.