Re: [Qemu-devel] [BUG] QEMU crash during cpu reset (MIPS regression)

[Blue Swirl]

On 5/4/07, Stefan Weil <address@hidden> wrote:
> Resetting a MIPS cpu currently does not work, because important
> entries in env (CPUMIPSState) are filled with 0 at the
> beginning of function cpu_reset.
>
> At system start, these values are set in cpu_mips_register.
>
> After reset, env->nb_tlb == 0 results in a division by zero
> crash of QEMU.
>
> We can either re-arrange the entries in CPUMIPSState
> (move those which must not be zero'ed to the end), or
> cpu_reset must call cpu_mips_register.
>
> Which solution is better?

I solved the same issue on Sparc side by not zeroing most of the
state. This is in line with the real Sparc hardware.