[Qemu-devel] QEMU crash with sun4v machine

[Thomas Huth]

 Hi Artyom,

I noticed that QEMU aborts the hard way when it is simply started like this:

$ sparc64-softmmu/qemu-system-sparc64 -M sun4v 
qemu: fatal: Trap 0x0010 while trap level (6) >= MAXTL (6), Error state
pc: 0000000000000200  npc: 0000000000000204
%g0-3: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
%g4-7: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
%o0-3: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 
%o4-7: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 
%l0-3: 0000000007f00000 000001ff00000000 000001fff0080000 0000000000000000 
%l4-7: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 
%i0-3: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 
%i4-7: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 
%f00:  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
%f08:  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
%f16:  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
%f24:  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
%f32:  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
%f40:  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
%f48:  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
%f56:  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
pstate: 00000014 ccr: 44 (icc: -Z-- xcc: -Z--) asi: 00 tl: 6 pil: 0 gl: 8
tbr: 0000000000000000 hpstate: 0000000000000004 htba: 0000000000000000
cansave: 6 canrestore: 0 otherwin: 0 wstate: 0 cleanwin: 6 cwp: 7
fsr: 0000000000000000 y: 0000000000000000 fprs: 0000000000000000

Aborted (core dumped)

That's ugly - QEMU should never simply abort unless we hit a
programming error. Do you see a good way to ease this situation, e.g.
by printing a more friendly error message if both, kernel and bios
could not be loaded?

 Thomas