Thanks for your repro instructions of comment #10. Something weird is indeed going on: the -d int logging reports:
Taking exception 7 [Breakpoint] ...from EL2 to EL1 ...with ESR 0x3c/0xf20003e8 ...with ELR 0x6000010c ...to EL1 PC 0x200 PSTATE 0x3c5 but an exception should *never* get taken from a higher to a lower exception level. I will investigate further. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1838277 Title: qemu-system-aarch64: regression: TCG sometimes using wrong values for VBAR_EL2 despite it being correctly reported to GDB Status in QEMU: New Bug description: Affects 3.1.0 (latest stable release) and latest commit (893dc8300c80e3dc32f31e968cf7aa0904da50c3) but did *not* affect 2.11 (qemu from bionic ubuntu LTS). With the following code and shell commands: test.s: .text mov x0, #0x60000000 msr vbar_el2, x0 dsb sy isb sy $ aarch64-none-elf-as test.s -o test.o $ aarch64-none-elf-objcopy -S -O binary test.o test.bin $ qemu-system-aarch64 -nographic -machine virt,virtualization=on -cpu cortex-a57 -kernel test.bin -s -S vbar_el2 is still 0 after the code, instead of being the expected 0x60000000. (see screenshot). This regression doesn't seem to happen for vbar_el1 & virtualization=off. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1838277/+subscriptions