qemu-system-aarch64 (tcg): cval + voff overflow not handled, causes qemu to hang
This bug has been copied automatically from: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1859021
The Armv8 architecture reference manual states that for any timer set (e.g. CNTP* and CNTV*), the condition for such timer to generate an interrupt (if enabled & unmasked) is: CVAL <= CNT(P/V)CT Although this is arguably sloppy coding, I have seen code that is therefore assuming it can set CVAL to a very high value (e.g. UINT64_MAX) and leave the interrupt enabled in CTL, and never get the interrupt. On latest master commit as the time of writing, there is an integer overflow in target/arm/helper.c gt_recalc_timer affecting the virtual timer when the interrupt is enabled in CTL: /* Next transition is when we hit cval */ nexttick = gt->cval + offset; When this overflow happens, I notice that qemu is no longer responsive and that I have to SIGKILL the process: - qemu takes nearly all the cpu time of the cores it is running on (e.g. 50% cpu usage if running on half the cores) and is completely unresponsive - no guest interrupt (reported via -d int) is generated Here the minimal code example to reproduce the issue: mov x0, #1 msr cntvoff_el2, x0 mov x0, #-1 msr cntv_cval_el0, x0 mov x0, #1 msr cntv_ctl_el0, x0 // interrupt generation enabled, not masked; qemu will start to hang here Options used: -nographic -machine virt,virtualization=on,gic-version=2,accel=tcg -cpu cortex-a57 -smp 4 -m 1024 -kernel whatever.elf -d unimp,guest_errors,int -semihosting-config enable,target=native -serial mon:stdio Version used: 4.2