[Qemu-devel] Questions on ARM port

[Schwarz, Konrad]

Hello,

 

the Newlib crt0.S file for ARM starts off by initializing the stack pointers for the different ARM modes (FIQ, IRQ, supervisor, etc.) with the help of r3.

 

e.g., this is the disassembly as produced by GDB:

 

Dump of assembler code for function start:
0x00008224 <start+0>:   ldr     r3, [pc, #208]  ; 0x82fc <$d+4>
0x00008228 <start+4>:   cmp     r3, #0  ; 0x0
0x0000822c <start+8>:   ldreq   r3, [pc, #196]  ; 0x82f8 <$d>
0x00008230 <start+12>:  msr     CPSR_c, #209    ; 0xd1
0x00008234 <start+16>:  mov     sp, r3
0x00008238 <start+20>:  sub     r10, sp, #4096  ; 0x1000
0x0000823c <start+24>:  mov     r3, r10
0x00008240 <start+28>:  msr     CPSR_c, #215    ; 0xd7
0x00008244 <start+32>:  mov     sp, r3
...

 

Basically, r3 is initialized by <start+8> (to 0x80000, in my case).  The next instruction (at <start+12>) switches the mode to FIQ.  After single steping over this in QEMU (via GDB si), r3 no longer contains what it had before (0x80000), instead, it is set to 0.  If I manually fix this (via set $r3=0x80000), then at the next mode switch (at <start+28>) r3 is changed incorrectly to zero again.

 

Is this my fault or what is happening?

 

I am invoking qemu as

 

    arm-softmmu/qemu-system-arm -S -s -M altera_excalibur -m 64 -net none -nographic -kernel ../projekte/L6/node-arm/libsys/test-io/libsys_test_uart -monitor null -parallel null -serial null

 

(where altera_excalibur is a machine that I have added and would like to debug).

 

Regards,

 

Konrad Schwarz

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