On 23 March 2018 at 19:47, Arnabjyoti Kalita <akal...@cs.stonybrook.edu> wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Yes only I could see that. Sorry for dumping out incomplete logs :) > > Well I think I figured out the source of this representation of repeating TB > blocks. Your 3rd point in your previous answer was the solution. The fact > that QEMU in TCG mode executes I/O instructions at the end of the > translation block is causing these blocks to repeat. What helped me to > figure this out was a recent patch in the QEMU source code. > > This is the patch : > https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/0790f86861079b1932679d0f011e431aaf4ee9e2
Note that that patch turned out to be incorrect. There's a fix to it: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-03/msg04999.html which hasn't made it into git yet but should do in the not too distant future. thanks -- PMM