[Bug 1880225] Re: Emulation of some arm programs fail with "Assertion `have_guest_base' failed."

[Aleksandar Markovic <1880225@bugs.launchpad.net>]

It appear that there is no problem on Intel 64-bit hosts.

Perhaps the problem is manifested on all 32-bit hosts. I currently don't
have access to any other 320bit host due to remote work.

The arm is the only target were I noticed this happens. I checked hppa,
mips, mipsel, m68k, ppc, and sh4, they ae all fine,  with the same
program/example, on the same 32-bit Intel host. I did not checked other
target except those I just mentioned.

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Title:
  Emulation of some arm programs fail with "Assertion `have_guest_base'
  failed."

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  This issue is observer with QEMU ToT, checked out around May 15th (but
  I believe it is present in current master too), and wasn't present in
  QEMU v5.0.0.

  I am using 32-bit Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz host.

  Arm cross-compiler is a standard cross-compiler that comes with
  Debian-based distributions, and gcc version is:

  $ arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc --version
  arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc (Debian 8.3.0-2) 8.3.0

  Compile this program with cross compiler:

  $ arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc -O2 -static toupper_string.c -o
  toupper_string-arm

  Emulation with QEMU v5.0.0 is correct, and gives expected output:

  $ ~/Build/qemu-5.0.0/build-gcc/arm-linux-user/qemu-arm ./toupper_string-arm
  CONTROL RESULT: (toupper_string)
   nwlrbbmqbhcdarz owkkyhiddqscdxr jmowfrxsjybldbe fsarcbynecdyggx xpklorellnmpapq
   NWLRBBMQBHCDARZ OWKKYHIDDQSCDXR JMOWFRXSJYBLDBE FSARCBYNECDYGGX XPKLORELLNMPAPQ

  While, in case of QEMU master it fails:

  $ ~/Build/qemu-master/build-gcc/arm-linux-user/qemu-arm ./toupper_string-arm
  qemu-arm: /home/rtrk/Build/qemu-master/linux-user/elfload.c:2294: probe_guest_base: Assertion `have_guest_base' failed.
  Aborted

  There are many other programs that exibit the same behavior. The
  failure is arm-sprecific.

  
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  source code: (let's call this file toupper_string.c) (similar file is
  also in attachment)

  
  #include <stdlib.h>
  #include <string.h>
  #include <stdio.h>
  #include <unistd.h>

  
  #define MAX_STRING_LENGHT              15
  #define NUMBER_OF_RANDOM_STRINGS       100
  #define DEFAULT_NUMBER_OF_REPETITIONS  30000
  #define MAX_NUMBER_OF_REPETITIONS      1000000000
  #define NUMBER_OF_CONTROL_PRINT_ITEMS  5

  /* Structure for keeping an array of strings */
  struct StringStruct {
      char chars[MAX_STRING_LENGHT + 1];
  };

  /**
   * Sets characters of the given string to random small letters a-z.
   * @param s String to get random characters.
   * @len Length of the input string.
   */
  static void gen_random_string(char *chars, const int len)
  {
      static const char letters[] = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";

      for (size_t i = 0; i < len; i++) {
          chars[i] = letters[rand() % (sizeof(letters) - 1)];
      }
      chars[len] = 0;
  }

  void main (int argc, char* argv[])
  {
      struct StringStruct random_strings[NUMBER_OF_RANDOM_STRINGS];
      struct StringStruct strings_to_be_uppercased[NUMBER_OF_RANDOM_STRINGS];
      int32_t number_of_repetitions = DEFAULT_NUMBER_OF_REPETITIONS;
      int32_t option;

      /* Parse command line options */
      while ((option = getopt(argc, argv, "n:")) != -1) {
          if (option == 'n') {
              int32_t user_number_of_repetitions = atoi(optarg);
              /* Check if the value is a negative number */
              if (user_number_of_repetitions < 1) {
                  fprintf(stderr, "Error ... Value for option '-n' cannot be a "
                                  "negative number.\n");
                  exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
              }
              /* Check if the value is a string or zero */
              if (user_number_of_repetitions == 0) {
                  fprintf(stderr, "Error ... Invalid value for option '-n'.\n");
                  exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
              }
              /* Check if the value is too large */
              if (user_number_of_repetitions > MAX_NUMBER_OF_REPETITIONS) {
                  fprintf(stderr, "Error ... Value for option '-n' cannot be "
                                  "more than %d.\n", MAX_NUMBER_OF_REPETITIONS);
                  exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
              }
              number_of_repetitions = user_number_of_repetitions;
          } else {
              exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
          }
      }

      /* Create an array of strings with random content */
      srand(1);
      for (size_t i = 0; i < NUMBER_OF_RANDOM_STRINGS; i++) {
          gen_random_string(random_strings[i].chars, MAX_STRING_LENGHT);
      }

      /* Perform uppercasing of a set of random strings multiple times */
      for (size_t j = 0; j < number_of_repetitions; j++) {
          /* Copy initial set of random strings to the set to be uppercased */
          memcpy(strings_to_be_uppercased, random_strings,
                 NUMBER_OF_RANDOM_STRINGS * (MAX_STRING_LENGHT + 1));
          /* Do actual changing case to uppercase */
          for (size_t i = 0; i < NUMBER_OF_RANDOM_STRINGS; i++) {
              int k = 0;
    
              while (strings_to_be_uppercased[i].chars[k]) { 
                  char ch = strings_to_be_uppercased[i].chars[k] - 32; 
                  memcpy((void *)strings_to_be_uppercased[i].chars + k,
                         &ch, 1);
                  k++; 
              } 
          }
      }

      /* Control printing */
      printf("CONTROL RESULT: (toupper_string)\n");
      for (size_t i = 0; i < NUMBER_OF_CONTROL_PRINT_ITEMS; i++) {
          printf(" %s", random_strings[i].chars);
      }
      printf("\n");
      for (size_t i = 0; i < NUMBER_OF_CONTROL_PRINT_ITEMS; i++) {
          printf(" %s", strings_to_be_uppercased[i].chars);
      }
      printf("\n");
  }

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