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** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776096 Title: qemu 2.12.0 qemu-system-ppc illegal instruction on ppc64le, crashes emulator Status in QEMU: Incomplete Bug description: % uname -a Linux tim.floodgap.com 4.16.14-300.fc28.ppc64le #1 SMP Tue Jun 5 15:59:48 UTC 2018 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux STR: Start QEMU and boot Mac OS X 10.4.11. Download the current version of TenFourFox (I used G3 so that AltiVec was not a confounder). Try to start TenFourFox in safe mode (hold down Option as you double-click while the icon bounces in the Dock). Expected: TenFourFox starts. Actual: The entire emulator exits with an illegal instruction error. Trace of session (including some disassembly so you can see where TCG went wrong): tim:/home/spectre/src/qemu-2.12.0/ppc-softmmu/% gdb --args ./qemu- system-ppc -M mac99,accel=tcg -m 2048 -prom-env boot-args=-v -boot c -drive file=tigerhd.img,format=raw,cache=none -netdev user,id=mynet0 -device usb-net,netdev=mynet0 -usb -device usb-tablet GNU gdb (GDB) Fedora 8.1-15.fc28 [...] Reading symbols from ./qemu-system-ppc...done. (gdb) run [...] Thread 6 "qemu-system-ppc" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 0x7ffff242ea30 (LWP 7017)] 0xfffffffffffffffc in ?? () #0 0xfffffffffffffffc in () #1 0x00007fffd4edec00 in code_gen_buffer () #2 0x00000000100c9e20 in cpu_tb_exec (itb=<optimized out>, cpu=<optimized out>) at /home/spectre/src/qemu-2.12.0/accel/tcg/cpu-exec.c:169 #3 0x00000000100c9e20 in cpu_loop_exec_tb (tb_exit=<synthetic pointer>, last_tb=<synthetic pointer>, tb=<optimized out>, cpu=<optimized out>) at /home/spectre/src/qemu-2.12.0/accel/tcg/cpu-exec.c:626 #4 0x00000000100c9e20 in cpu_exec (cpu=<optimized out>) at /home/spectre/src/qemu-2.12.0/accel/tcg/cpu-exec.c:734 #5 0x000000001007decc in tcg_cpu_exec (cpu=0x11774e10) at /home/spectre/src/qemu-2.12.0/cpus.c:1362 (gdb) disas 0x00007fffd4edebf0, 0x00007fffd4edec10 Dump of assembler code from 0x7fffd4edebf0 to 0x7fffd4edec10: 0x00007fffd4edebf0 <code_gen_buffer+284027700>: addi r0,r4,3 0x00007fffd4edebf4 <code_gen_buffer+284027704>: rlwinm r0,r0,0,0,19 0x00007fffd4edebf8 <code_gen_buffer+284027708>: cmplw cr7,r0,r12 0x00007fffd4edebfc <code_gen_buffer+284027712>: bnel cr7,0x7fffd4ed8b64 <code_gen_buffer+284002984> 0x00007fffd4edec00 <code_gen_buffer+284027716>: lwbrx r14,r3,r4 0x00007fffd4edec04 <code_gen_buffer+284027720>: stw r14,40(r27) 0x00007fffd4edec08 <code_gen_buffer+284027724>: clrldi r4,r14,32 0x00007fffd4edec0c <code_gen_buffer+284027728>: rlwinm r3,r4,25,19,26 End of assembler dump. (gdb) disas 0x7fffd4ed8b60, 0x7fffd4ed8b70 Dump of assembler code from 0x7fffd4ed8b60 to 0x7fffd4ed8b70: 0x00007fffd4ed8b60 <code_gen_buffer+284002980>: bctrl 0x00007fffd4ed8b64 <code_gen_buffer+284002984>: mtctr r3 0x00007fffd4ed8b68 <code_gen_buffer+284002988>: mr r31,r3 0x00007fffd4ed8b6c <code_gen_buffer+284002992>: li r3,0 End of assembler dump. (gdb) i reg ctr ctr 0xffffffffffffffff 18446744073709551615 It appears that the branch at 0x00007fffd4edebfc caused a jump back (a return?) through CTR, but CTR has -1 in it, hence setting PC to 0xfffffffffffffffc. I am not sure how to debug this further. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1776096/+subscriptions