From: Daniels Umanovskis <1809546@bugs.launchpad.net>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1809546] Re: Writing a byte to a pl011 SFR overwrites the whole SFR
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2019 16:29:54 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <154661939440.5391.4909051811086517882.malone@wampee.canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 154549130563.19742.15114184471142076379.malonedeb@soybean.canonical.com
Thanks for the response.
I don't think section 3.1 applies to 8-bit accesses. That is
specifically about reserved locations, and neither offset 0x38 nor 0x39
are reserved, so I think it's a matter of whether 32-bit access is
required or not.
>From what I usually see in ARM documentation, 32-bit access is
explicitly mentioned when required. For the PL011, it's mentioned for
the UARTPeriphID_n registers, for instance. In many other cases access
size depends on the implementation and the corresponding memory mapping
of that implementation.
I understand that *in practice* you should ensure single-access writes
unless doing otherwise is explicitly allowed. However, in cases like the
PL011 it seems ambiguous whether that is actually required, so it seems
like the best choice would be to explicitly document it for the QEMU
implementation. That would save some guesswork.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1809546
Title:
Writing a byte to a pl011 SFR overwrites the whole SFR
Status in QEMU:
New
Bug description:
The bug is present in QEMU 2.8.1 and, if my analysis is correct, also
on master.
I first noticed that a PL011 UART driver, which is fine on real
hardware, fails to enable the RX interrupt in the IMSC register when
running in QEMU. However, the problem only comes up if the code is
compiled without optimizations. I think I've narrowed it down to a
minimal example that will exhibit the problem if run as a bare-metal
application.
Given:
pl011_addr: .word 0x10009000
The following snippet will be problematic:
ldr r3, pl011_addr
ldrb r2, [r3, #0x38] // IMSC
mov r2, #0
orr r2, r2, #0x10 // R2 == 0x10
strb r2, [r3, #0x38] // Whole word reads correctly after this
ldrb r2, [r3, #0x39]
mov r2, #0
strb r2, [r3, #0x39] // Problem here! Overwrites offset 0x38 as well
After the first strb instruction, which writes to 0x10009038,
everything is fine. It can be seen in the QEMU monitor:
(qemu) xp 0x10009038
0000000010009038: 0x00000010
After the second strb instruction, the write to 0x10009039 clears the
entire word:
(qemu) xp 0x10009038
0000000010009038: 0x00000000
QEMU command-line, using the vexpress-a9 which has the PL011 at
0x10009000:
qemu-system-arm -S -M vexpress-a9 -m 32M -no-reboot -nographic
-monitor telnet:127.0.0.1:1234,server,nowait -kernel pl011-sfr.bin
-gdb tcp::2159 -serial mon:stdio
Compiling the original C code with optimizations makes the driver
work. It compiles down to assembly that only does a single write:
ldr r3, pl011_addr
mov r2, #0x10
str r2, [r3, #0x38]
Attached is the an assembly file, and linkscript, that shows the
problem, and also includes the working code.
I haven't debugged inside of QEMU itself but it seems to me that the
problem is in pl011_write in pl011.c - the functions looks at which
offset is being written, and then writes the entire SFR that offset
falls under, which means that changing a single byte will change the
whole SFR.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-04 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-22 15:08 [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1809546] [NEW] Writing a byte to a pl011 SFR overwrites the whole SFR Daniels Umanovskis
2018-12-22 15:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1809546] " Daniels Umanovskis
2019-01-04 14:32 ` Peter Maydell
2019-01-04 16:29 ` Daniels Umanovskis [this message]
2021-05-05 17:44 ` Thomas Huth
2021-07-05 4:17 ` Launchpad Bug Tracker
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