Public bug reported: ARMv7a has lot of undefined instruction from its instruction opcode space. This undefined instructions are very useful for replacing sensitive non-priviledged instructions of guest operating systems (virtualization). The undefined instruction exception executes at <exception_base> + 0x4, where <exception_base> can be 0x0 or 0xfff00000. Currently, in qemu 0.14.0 undefined instruction fault at 0x8 offset instead of 0x4. This was not a problem with qemu 0.13.0, seems like this is a new bug. As as example, if we try to execute value "0xec019800" in qemu 0.14.0 then it should cause undefined exception at <exception_base>+0x4 since "0xec019800" is an undefined instruction.
** Affects: qemu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/757702 Title: Undefined instruction exception starts at offset 0x8 instead of 0x4 Status in QEMU: New Bug description: ARMv7a has lot of undefined instruction from its instruction opcode space. This undefined instructions are very useful for replacing sensitive non-priviledged instructions of guest operating systems (virtualization). The undefined instruction exception executes at <exception_base> + 0x4, where <exception_base> can be 0x0 or 0xfff00000. Currently, in qemu 0.14.0 undefined instruction fault at 0x8 offset instead of 0x4. This was not a problem with qemu 0.13.0, seems like this is a new bug. As as example, if we try to execute value "0xec019800" in qemu 0.14.0 then it should cause undefined exception at <exception_base>+0x4 since "0xec019800" is an undefined instruction.