Hi Duarte,
On 25/03/2015 23:54, Duarte Silva wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 March 2015 17:33:59 Leon Alrae wrote:
>> On 25/03/2015 15:38, Duarte Silva wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 25 March 2015 14:54:41 Leon Alrae wrote:
>>>> On 25/03/2015 14:44, Leon Alrae wrote:
>>>>> Hi Duarte,
>>>>>
>>>>> On 25/03/2015 14:20, Duarte Silva wrote:
>>>>>> On Wednesday 25 March 2015 13:13:14 James Hogan wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Duarte,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 22/03/15 11:13, Duarte Silva wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have been struggling to get some binaries compiled for NetLogic XLP
>>>>>>>> processor to run under QEMU. I have tried a bunch of things (most
>>>>>>>> going
>>>>>>>> back and forth) and always get the following error message:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> qemu: uncaught target signal 4 (Illegal instruction) - core dumped
>>>>>>>> Illegal instruction
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I tried to debug it using GDB but to no avail. Does anybody have
>>>>>>>> ideas?
>>>>>>>> I'm
>>>>>>>> running QEMU 2.2.1.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It sounds like the program had an instruction that QEMU doesn't
>>>>>>> recognise, or doesn't think should be allowed on the current CPU which
>>>>>>> you've set with -cpu. You might be able to find out what that
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> instruction is by putting this on your qemu command line:
>>>>>>> -singlestep -d in_asm
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi James,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> thanks for the help :) I have tried with all the CPU's available. None
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> them worked, so I just leave it as undefined. It seems the offending
>>>>>> instruction is "udi4".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (...)
>>>>>> IN:
>>>>>> 0x765d1fa4: udi4 a0,v0,zero,0x0
>>>>>
>>>>> According to this line you are trying to use MIPS32 CPU whereas I
>>>>> presume you would like MIPS64R2? Please try 5KEf CPU for example which
>>>>> is available in qemu-mips64 and qemu-mips64el QEMU binaries for big and
>>>>> little endian respectively.
>>>>
>>>> I just noticed the QEMU version you are using and it doesn't contain
>>>> 5KEf and 5KEc CPUs. Please try MIPS64R2-generic.
>>>>
>>>> Leon
>>>
>>> Hi Leon,
>>>
>>> have a look at the "binary-info.txt" file in the first e-Mail. It does use
>>> the ELF magic for 32 bits ELF, not the 64 bits, that's why I get the
>>> following:
>>>
>>> # chroot rootfs/ /usr/local/bin/qemu-mips64 -cpu MIPS64R2-generic /bin/sh
>>> /bin/sh: Invalid ELF image for this architecture
>>>
>>> Is there a way to force the execution of the binary even if the flag
>>> doesn't match?
>>>
>>> Also, if you have a look at the flags you get: noreorder, cpic, 32bitmode,
>>> unknown CPU, o32, mips64r2. So, is it 64 bits or 32 bits ELF file?
>>
>> I see, this mips64r2 binary has o32 ABI. It indeed would work in
>> qemu-mips provided there are no mips64r2-specific instructions. I think
>> I jumped a bit too quickly to the conclusion.
>>
>> QEMU's mips/disas doesn't help much in this case as it just indicates
>> User Defined Instruction. Presumably this instruction is specific to
>> this processor and is missing in QEMU. Are you able to get disassembly
>> of your program and look up what is under 0x765d1fa4 address which
>> caused the illegal instruction?
>
> Hi Leon,
>
> using IDA with a remote debug session to QEMU I got the following
> disassembly
> (kept surrounding instructions to give some context). To IDA, this custom
> instruction is also unknown.
>
> MEMORY:765D1F90 sw $v1, 4($v0)
> MEMORY:765D1F94 addu $a0, $a1
> MEMORY:765D1F98 sw $a0, 0($v0)
> MEMORY:765D1F9C
> MEMORY:765D1F9C loc_765D1F9C:
> MEMORY:765D1F9C addiu $a0, $s1, 0x51B0
> MEMORY:765D1FA0 move $v0, $zero
> MEMORY:765D1FA0 # -----------------------
> MEMORY:765D1FA4 .byte 0x70 # p
> MEMORY:765D1FA5 .byte 0x82 # é
> MEMORY:765D1FA6 .byte 0
> MEMORY:765D1FA7 .byte 0x14
> MEMORY:765D1FA8 # -----------------------
> MEMORY:765D1FA8 slti $v0, 2
> MEMORY:765D1FAC beqz $v0, loc_765D204C
> MEMORY:765D1FB0 nop
> MEMORY:765D1FB4 lw $ra, 0x24($sp)
> MEMORY:765D1FB8
> MEMORY:765D1FB8 loc_765D1FB8:
> MEMORY:765D1FB8 move $v0, $s0
> MEMORY:765D1FBC lw $s1, 0x20($sp)
> MEMORY:765D1FC0 lw $s0, 0x1C($sp)
According to binutils this is SWAPW which belongs to XLR:
{"swapw", "t,b", 0x70000014, 0xfc00ffff,
MOD_1|RD_2|LM|SM, 0, XLR, 0, 0 },
I'm afraid you won't be able to run binaries built for NetLogic XLP
until someone implements these instructions in QEMU.
Regards,
Leon
