From: Ziqiao Kong <ziqiaok...@gmail.com> On big endian systems, pte and updated_pte hold big endian host data while pte_pa points to little endian target data. This means the branch at cpu_helper.c:1669 will be always satisfied and restart translation, causing an endless translation loop.
The correctness of this patch can be deduced by: old_pte will hold value either from cpu_to_le32/64(pte) or cpu_to_le32/64(updated_pte), both of wich is litte endian. After that, an in-place conversion by le32/64_to_cpu(old_pte) ensures that old_pte now is in native endian, same with pte. Therefore, the endianness of the both side of if (old_pte != pte) is correct. Signed-off-by: Ziqiao Kong <ziqiaok...@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.fran...@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.hender...@linaro.org> Message-ID: <20250415080254.3667878-2-ziqiaok...@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.fran...@wdc.com> Cc: qemu-sta...@nongnu.org --- target/riscv/cpu_helper.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/target/riscv/cpu_helper.c b/target/riscv/cpu_helper.c index d5039f69a9..2ed69d7c2d 100644 --- a/target/riscv/cpu_helper.c +++ b/target/riscv/cpu_helper.c @@ -1566,9 +1566,11 @@ static int get_physical_address(CPURISCVState *env, hwaddr *physical, target_ulong *pte_pa = qemu_map_ram_ptr(mr->ram_block, addr1); target_ulong old_pte; if (riscv_cpu_sxl(env) == MXL_RV32) { - old_pte = qatomic_cmpxchg((uint32_t *)pte_pa, pte, updated_pte); + old_pte = qatomic_cmpxchg((uint32_t *)pte_pa, cpu_to_le32(pte), cpu_to_le32(updated_pte)); + old_pte = le32_to_cpu(old_pte); } else { - old_pte = qatomic_cmpxchg(pte_pa, pte, updated_pte); + old_pte = qatomic_cmpxchg(pte_pa, cpu_to_le64(pte), cpu_to_le64(updated_pte)); + old_pte = le64_to_cpu(old_pte); } if (old_pte != pte) { goto restart; -- 2.49.0