Re: Qemu and ARM secure state.

[Jean-Christophe DUBOIS]

Le 04/11/2021 à 12:11, Peter Maydell a écrit :

> On Wed, 3 Nov 2021 at 13:27, Jean-Christophe DUBOIS <jcd@tribudubois.net> wrote:
> > I have a little application that is designed to work on the i.MX6UL processor.
> >
> > I developed it and tested it on the mcimx6ul-evk platform emulated by Qemu.
> >
> > This application used to work "flawlessly" on Qemu 5.0.50 and is working on Qemu 6.0.0 (available as a pre-built package on the latest Ubuntu).
> >
> > But when I try to run the exact same command line on a Qemu version I compile myself from main/latest of github (Qemu 6.1.50), my application fails to start.
> >
> > So a little background:
> >
> > My application expects to start in "secure" state and supervisor mode (which is the default state of i.MX6UL when booting barebone [without u-boot]).
> >
> > >From this state the application tries to get to "non secure" / hypervisor mode which imply going to the "secure" / monitor state before being able to drop to "non secure" / hypervisor. To do so is runs a "smc 0" operand (from "secure" / supervisor).
> >
> > This "smc" instruction is processed "as expected" by Qemu 5.0.50 and Qemu 6.0.0 (getting to "secure" / monitor mode) but on Qemu 6.1.50 (latest from github) it is as if the smc operand was a no-op. It doesn't trigger any exception and the processor just get to the next instruction after the "smc" instruction. So I am a bit puzzled.
> >
> > Is there something that changed in Qemu (since Qemu 6.0.0) when it comes to the "secure" world/state?
> > Is there some additional command line parameters to use (I search in the documentation but without luck) to get secure world behavior ?
> > Is it necessary to "adapt" the emulated platform (i.MX6UL/mcimx6ul-evk) in some way (it looks like the "virt" machine with "secure=on" does work for arm platform)?
> >       
> Could you try doing a bisect to find the QEMU commit that caused
> your guest to stop working ?
>

OK, I did the bisect and the commit that break the i.MX6UL behavior for my program is commit 9fcd15b9193e819b6cc2fd0a45e3506148812bb4 (arm: tcg: Adhere to SMCCC 1.3 section 5.2).

Before it the SMC instruction would trigger a monitor exception.

After it the SMC instruction is acting like a no-op.

Thanks

JC

> thanks
> -- PMM
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