On 7/9/2026 4:34 PM, Brian Cain wrote:
> I took some "working" programs under userspace emulation into a linux
> instance running on a fork with comprehensive system mode support and
> discovered a compiler bug causing unaligned accesses.  This bug had
> gone undetected in userspace tests because they were not handled correctly
> by QEMU.
> 
> With these patches, unaligned accesses cause an exception that generates
> SIGBUS.
> 
> Brian Cain (4):
>   target/hexagon: raise SIGBUS on unaligned scalar loads
>   target/hexagon: raise SIGBUS on unaligned scalar stores
>   target/hexagon: raise SIGBUS on unaligned data access in sysemu
>   tests/tcg/hexagon: add unaligned scalar test
> 
>  linux-user/hexagon/cpu_loop.c               |   5 +
>  target/hexagon/cpu.c                        |  25 +++++
>  target/hexagon/genptr.c                     |  10 +-
>  target/hexagon/idef-parser/parser-helpers.c |   2 +-
>  target/hexagon/macros.h                     |  26 +++--
>  target/hexagon/op_helper.c                  |  13 ++-
>  target/hexagon/translate.c                  |   6 +-
>  tests/tcg/hexagon/Makefile.target           |   2 +
>  tests/tcg/hexagon/unaligned_data.c          | 118 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  9 files changed, 185 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tests/tcg/hexagon/unaligned_data.c
> 

Reviewed-by: Pierrick Bouvier <[email protected]>


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