On Thu, 2026-02-12 at 15:07 +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> The test case in the ppe42 functional test triggers a TCG debug
> assertion, which causes the test to fail in an --enable-debug
> build or when the sanitizers are enabled:
> 
> #6  0x00007ffff4a3b517 in __assert_fail
>     (assertion=0x5555562e7589 "!temp_readonly(ots)", file=0x5555562e5b23 
> "../../tcg/tcg.c", line=4928, function=0x5555562e8900 
> <__PRETTY_FUNCTION__.23> "tcg_reg_alloc_mov") at ./assert/assert.c:105
> #7  0x0000555555cc2189 in tcg_reg_alloc_mov (s=0x7fff60000b70, 
> op=0x7fff600126f8) at ../../tcg/tcg.c:4928
> #8  0x0000555555cc74e0 in tcg_gen_code (s=0x7fff60000b70, tb=0x7fffa802f540, 
> pc_start=4294446080) at ../../tcg/tcg.c:6667
> #9  0x0000555555d02abe in setjmp_gen_code
>     (env=0x555556cbe610, tb=0x7fffa802f540, pc=4294446080, 
> host_pc=0x7fffeea00c00, max_insns=0x7fffee9f9d74, ti=0x7fffee9f9d90)
>     at ../../accel/tcg/translate-all.c:257
> #10 0x0000555555d02d75 in tb_gen_code (cpu=0x555556cba590, s=...) at 
> ../../accel/tcg/translate-all.c:325
> #11 0x0000555555cf5922 in cpu_exec_loop (cpu=0x555556cba590, 
> sc=0x7fffee9f9ee0) at ../../accel/tcg/cpu-exec.c:970
> #12 0x0000555555cf5aae in cpu_exec_setjmp (cpu=0x555556cba590, 
> sc=0x7fffee9f9ee0) at ../../accel/tcg/cpu-exec.c:1016
> #13 0x0000555555cf5b4b in cpu_exec (cpu=0x555556cba590) at 
> ../../accel/tcg/cpu-exec.c:1042
> #14 0x0000555555d1e7ab in tcg_cpu_exec (cpu=0x555556cba590) at 
> ../../accel/tcg/tcg-accel-ops.c:82
> #15 0x0000555555d1ff97 in rr_cpu_thread_fn (arg=0x555556cba590) at 
> ../../accel/tcg/tcg-accel-ops-rr.c:285
> #16 0x00005555561586c9 in qemu_thread_start (args=0x555556ee3c90) at 
> ../../util/qemu-thread-posix.c:393
> #17 0x00007ffff4a9caa4 in start_thread (arg=<optimized out>) at 
> ./nptl/pthread_create.c:447
> #18 0x00007ffff4b29c6c in clone3 () at 
> ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone3.S:78
> 
> This can be reproduced "by hand":
> 
>  ./build/clang/qemu-system-ppc -display none -vga none \
>     -machine ppe42_machine -serial stdio \
>     -device 
> loader,file=$HOME/.cache/qemu/download/03c1ac0fb7f6c025102a02776a93b35101dae7c14b75e4eab36a337e39042ea8
>  \
>     -device loader,addr=0xfff80040,cpu-num=0
> 
> (assuming you have the image file from the functional test
> in your local cache).
> 
> This happens for this input:
> 
> IN:
> 0xfff80c00:  07436004  .byte    0x07, 0x43, 0x60, 0x04
> 
> which generates (among other things):
> 
>  not_i32 $0x80000,$0x80000
> 
> which the TCG optimization pass turns into:
> 
>  mov_i32 $0x80000,$0xfff7ffff             dead: 1  pref=0xffff
> 
> and where we then assert because we tried to write to a constant.
> 
> This happens for the CLRBWIBC instruction which ends up in
> do_mask_branch() with rb_is_gpr false and invert true.  In this case
> we will generate code that sets mask to a tcg_constant_tl() but then
> uses it as the LHS in tcg_gen_not_tl().
> 
> Fix the assertion by doing the invert in the translate time C code
> for the "mask is constant" case.
> 
> Cc: [email protected]
> Fixes: f7ec91c23906 ("target/ppc: Add IBM PPE42 special instructions")
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <[email protected]>
> ---
>  target/ppc/translate/ppe-impl.c.inc | 12 ++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/target/ppc/translate/ppe-impl.c.inc 
> b/target/ppc/translate/ppe-impl.c.inc
> index 0a0590344e..1c27facb89 100644
> --- a/target/ppc/translate/ppe-impl.c.inc
> +++ b/target/ppc/translate/ppe-impl.c.inc
> @@ -424,11 +424,15 @@ static bool do_mask_branch(DisasContext *ctx, arg_FCB * 
> a, bool invert,
>          shift = tcg_temp_new();
>          tcg_gen_andi_tl(shift, cpu_gpr[a->rb], 0x1f);
>          tcg_gen_shr_tl(mask, tcg_constant_tl(0x80000000), shift);
> +        if (invert) {
> +            tcg_gen_not_tl(mask, mask);
> +        }
>      } else {
> -        mask = tcg_constant_tl(PPC_BIT32(a->rb));
> -    }
> -    if (invert) {
> -        tcg_gen_not_tl(mask, mask);
> +        target_ulong mask_const = PPC_BIT32(a->rb);
> +        if (invert) {
> +            mask_const = ~mask_const;
> +        }
> +        mask = tcg_constant_tl(mask_const);
>      }
>  
>      /* apply mask to ra */

Ah, thank you for finding AND fixing my bug!  We'll have to look into
adding this "--enable-debug" option to our internal testing in the
future!

Reviewed-by: Glenn Miles <[email protected]>


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