I'm still not very tuned-in into the code, but I think this piece should use _raw access primitives:
diff --git a/linux-user/signal.c b/linux-user/signal.c index 77683f7..097da9d 100644 --- a/linux-user/signal.c +++ b/linux-user/signal.c @@ -982,8 +982,8 @@ restore_sigcontext(CPUX86State *env, struct target_sigcontext *sc, int *peax) env->regs[R_ECX] = tswapl(sc->ecx); env->eip = tswapl(sc->eip); - cpu_x86_load_seg(env, R_CS, lduw(&sc->cs) | 3); - cpu_x86_load_seg(env, R_SS, lduw(&sc->ss) | 3); + cpu_x86_load_seg(env, R_CS, lduw_raw(&sc->cs) | 3); + cpu_x86_load_seg(env, R_SS, lduw_raw(&sc->ss) | 3); tmpflags = tswapl(sc->eflags); env->eflags = (env->eflags & ~0x40DD5) | (tmpflags & 0x40DD5); I triggered it while capturing "lduw" and the like in both softmmu and linux-user to intercept memory access information coming from non-generated code (I'm not capturing neither _raw nor _code, as they do not seem to relate to "real" memory access events on the guest). What I've found is that this is the only place where a ld* primitive is not being passed a "target_ulong" as argument. Thanks, Lluis -- "And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer." -- The Princess of Pure Reason, as told by Norton Juster in The Phantom Tollbooth