On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 9:12 PM Daniel Henrique Barboza
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This patch was originally made by Gitlab user Bo Gan (@ganboing) 4
> months ago in the context of issue [1]. I asked the author to send a
> patch to the mailing list ~3 months ago and got no reply. I'm sending
> the patch myself because we already missed 10.1 without this fix.
>
> I'll also just post verbatim Bo Gan comment in the commit msg:
>
> "In RISCV Linux with KVM enabled, gdbstub is broken. The
> get_physical_address isn't able to page-walk correctly and resolve the
> physical page. This is due to that the vcpu is being treated as starting
> in M mode even if KVM enabled. However, with KVM, the vcpu is actually
> started in S mode. The mmu_idx will give 3 (M), instead of 1 (S),
> resulting in Guest PA == VA (wrong)!"
>
> Set env->priv to PRV_S in kvm_riscv_reset_regs_csr() since the VCPU is
> always started in S-mode for KVM.
>
> [1] https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2991
>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Closes: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2991
> Originally-by: Bo Gan (@ganboing in Gitlab)
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <[email protected]>

Thanks!

Applied to riscv-to-apply.next

Alistair

> ---
>  target/riscv/kvm/kvm-cpu.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/target/riscv/kvm/kvm-cpu.c b/target/riscv/kvm/kvm-cpu.c
> index 0dd0d59d41..000e44b2b7 100644
> --- a/target/riscv/kvm/kvm-cpu.c
> +++ b/target/riscv/kvm/kvm-cpu.c
> @@ -705,6 +705,7 @@ static void kvm_riscv_reset_regs_csr(CPURISCVState *env)
>      env->satp = 0;
>      env->scounteren = 0;
>      env->senvcfg = 0;
> +    env->priv = PRV_S;
>  }
>
>  static int kvm_riscv_get_regs_fp(CPUState *cs)
> --
> 2.51.0
>
>

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