Go garbage collector crashes when using qemu-x86_64 on an aarch64 host
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## Host environment
- Operating system: Alpine Linux
- OS/kernel version: 6.11-rc6
- Architecture: aarch64
- QEMU flavor: qemu-x86_64 (statically linked)
- QEMU version: from 9.0.1
- QEMU command line: using qemu via binfmt, see steps to reproduce below
## Emulated/Virtualized environment
- Operating system: n/a
- OS/kernel version: n/a
- Architecture: x86_64
## Description of problem
Apps compiled for Go and the Go compiler/tool itself crash when they are run with `qemu-x86_64` on an AARCH64 host system. This was not a problem on QEMU 8.2.x (I bisected, see further down). I also seem to recall that Go 1.21 is fine on QEMU 9.x, so maybe some recent change in Go 1.22 + recent changes in QEMU broke something?
The crash from Go seems to be in the garbage collector, I cannot reproduce the issue when I disable the GC with `GOGC=off`.
Output from Go when it crashes:
```
$ sudo chroot . go build main.go
runtime: lfstack.push invalid packing: node=0xffff6542b2c0 cnt=0x1 packed=0xffff6542b2c00001 -> node=0xffffffff6542b2c0
fatal error: lfstack.push
runtime stack:
runtime.throw({0xa95b29?, 0x797b1e2a383c?})
runtime/panic.go:1023 +0x5c fp=0xc000515f08 sp=0xc000515ed8 pc=0x43c27c
runtime.(*lfstack).push(0x0?, 0xc0005041c0?)
runtime/lfstack.go:29 +0x125 fp=0xc000515f48 sp=0xc000515f08 pc=0x40fd45
runtime.(*spanSetBlockAlloc).free(...)
runtime/mspanset.go:322
runtime.(*spanSet).reset(0xf46980)
runtime/mspanset.go:264 +0x79 fp=0xc000515f78 sp=0xc000515f48 pc=0x437219
runtime.finishsweep_m()
runtime/mgcsweep.go:258 +0x8d fp=0xc000515fb8 sp=0xc000515f78 pc=0x42a6cd
runtime.gcStart.func2()
runtime/mgc.go:685 +0xf fp=0xc000515fc8 sp=0xc000515fb8 pc=0x46e40f
runtime.systemstack(0x0)
runtime/asm_amd64.s:509 +0x4a fp=0xc000515fd8 sp=0xc000515fc8 pc=0x47442a
````
## Steps to reproduce
0. Use an aarch64 host system!
1. Set up binfmt to use qemu-x86_64:
```
$ cat /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/qemu-x86_64
enabled
interpreter /usr/bin/qemu-x86_64
flags: OCF
offset 0
magic 7f454c4602010100000000000000000002003e00
mask fffffffffffefe00fffffffffffffffffeffffff
```
2. Download/extract x86_64 rootfs:
```
$ curl -O https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.20/releases/x86_64/alpine-minirootfs-3.20.2-x86_64.tar.gz
```
3. Create example app in the x86_64 rootfs:
```
package main
func main() {
}
```
4. Build using chroot:
```
$ sudo chroot /path/to/x86_64/rootfs apk add go
$ sudo chroot /path/to/x86_64/rootfs go build main.go
runtime: lfstack.push invalid packing: node=0xffff6542b2c0 cnt=0x1 packed=0xffff6542b2c00001 -> node=0xffffffff6542b2c0
fatal error: lfstack.push
...
```
5. As noted previously, if the Go garbage collector is disabled, then it works, presumably because it avoids the bug(?) in QEMU:
```
$ sudo chroot . env GOGC=off go build main.go
# might have to mount /dev to build successfully, but Go doesn't panic!
```
## Additional information
I've bisected this exact crash/failure to:
```
commit 2952b642a555207748dd961fcbfdc48f198eebb6
Author: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Date: Tue Feb 13 10:20:27 2024 -1000
linux-user: Split out do_munmap
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
```
Though a different crash starts happening at the commit before that one:
```
commit ad87d26e6bb13257409f412224c862fc54025e8b
Author: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Date: Tue Jan 2 12:57:55 2024 +1100
linux-user: Do early mmap placement only for reserved_va
For reserved_va, place all non-fixed maps then proceed
as for MAP_FIXED.
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
```
FYI @rth7680
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