A shorter command line to reproduce this with QEMU 2.11.0 and HelenOS 0.7.1 would be:
$ qemu-system-mips -cpu 4Kc -kernel HelenOS-0.7.1-mips32-malta-be.boot -nographic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1128935 Title: MIPS r4k "TLB modified exception" generated for TLB entries that are not visible to the TLBP instruction Status in HelenOS branches: New Status in QEMU: Incomplete Bug description: I occasionally see that the TLBP instruction fails to find the corresponding TLB entry in the TLB Modified exception handler. This behavior is unexpected, because the invocation of the TLB Modified exception suggests there indeed is such an entry in the TLB and only requires its dirty bit to be set. The operating system which can trigger and is susceptible to this behavior is a HelenOS branch located in lp:~jakub/helenos/mips-malta. The QEMU version on which this is reproducible is QEMU 1.4.0 and also some others. When I looked into the QEMU sources, I noticed the following discrepancy, which could potentially explain the behavior: 65 /* MIPS32/MIPS64 R4000-style MMU emulation */ 66 int r4k_map_address (CPUMIPSState *env, hwaddr *physical, int *prot, 67 target_ulong address, int rw, int access_type) 68 { <snip> 72 for (i = 0; i < env->tlb->tlb_in_use; i++) { 1865 void r4k_helper_tlbp(CPUMIPSState *env) 1866 { <snip> 1875 for (i = 0; i < env->tlb->nb_tlb; i++) { From the above it appears as if the the code which searches the TLB for a matching entry searched also the QEMU-specific "shadow" TLB entries, which is, however, not in line with how the TLBP instruction searches the TLB. So if a matching entry is found on index >= tlb_in_use, the HelenOS exception handler using TLBP to locate the entry would hit an assertion on seeing the Index register bit P set. I also suspect there is a similar issue with the TLB Invalid exception, but thanks to the specifics of the MIPS 4Kc CPU, HelenOS is not susceptible in this case. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/helenos/+bug/1128935/+subscriptions
