If multiple guest threads in user-mode emulation write to a
page which QEMU has marked read-only because of cached TCG
translations, the threads can race in page_unprotect:
* threads A & B both try to do a write to a page with code in it at
the same time (ie which we've made non-writeable, so SEGV)
* they race into the signal handler with this faulting address
* thread A happens to get to page_unprotect() first and takes the
mmap lock, so thread B sits waiting for it to be done
* A then finds the page, marks it PAGE_WRITE and mprotect()s it writable
* A can then continue OK (returns from signal handler to retry the
memory access)
* ...but when B gets the mmap lock it finds that the page is already
PAGE_WRITE, and so it exits page_unprotect() via the "not due to
protected translation" code path, and wrongly delivers the signal
to the guest rather than just retrying the access
In particular, this meant that trying to run 'javac' in user-mode
emulation would fail with a spurious guest SIGSEGV.
Handle this by making page_unprotect() assume that a call for a page
which is already PAGE_WRITE is due to a race of this sort and return
a "fault handled" indication.
Since this would cause an infinite loop if we ever called
page_unprotect() for some other kind of fault than "write failed due
to bad access permissions", tighten the condition in
handle_cpu_signal() to check the signal number and si_code, and add a
comment so that if somebody does ever find themselves debugging an
infinite loop of faults they have some clue about why.
(The trick for identifying the correct setting for
current_tb_invalidated for thread B (needed to handle the precise-SMC
case) is due to Richard Henderson. Paolo Bonzini suggested just
relying on si_code rather than trying anything more complicated.)
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <1511879725-9576-3-git-send-email-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
QEMU README
===========
QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.
QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).
QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.
QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.
QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.
Building
========
QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
https://qemu.org/Hosts/Linux
https://qemu.org/Hosts/Mac
https://qemu.org/Hosts/W32
Submitting patches
==================
The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.
git clone git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git
When submitting patches, the preferred approach is to use 'git
format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
guidelines set out in the HACKING and CODING_STYLE files.
Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
the QEMU website
https://qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
https://qemu.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches
Bug reporting
=============
The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs
found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
should be reported via:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/
If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
reported via launchpad.
For additional information on bug reporting consult:
https://qemu.org/Contribute/ReportABug
Contact
=======
The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
main methods being email and IRC
- qemu-devel@nongnu.org
https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
- #qemu on irc.oftc.net
Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
found online via the QEMU website:
https://qemu.org/Contribute/StartHere
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