Public bug reported:
I have an OS that tries to use SSE operations. It works fine in qemu.
But it crashes when I try to run the OS at the host cpu using KVM.
The instruction that crahes with #GP(0) is
movaps ADDR,%xmm0
The documentation says ADDR has to be 16-bytes alignment otherwise #GP
is generated. And indeed the problem was with the data alignment. After
adjusting it at my side the OS works fine both with Qemu and KVM.
It would be great if QEMU followed specification more closely and forced
SSE data alignment requirements. It will help to catch alignment issues
early and debug it easier.
$ qemu-system-x86_64 -version
QEMU emulator version 2.9.50 (v2.9.0-1363-g95eef1c68b)
Copyright (c) 2003-2017 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers
** Affects: qemu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1699567
Title:
Qemu does not force SSE data alignment
Status in QEMU:
New
Bug description:
I have an OS that tries to use SSE operations. It works fine in qemu.
But it crashes when I try to run the OS at the host cpu using KVM.
The instruction that crahes with #GP(0) is
movaps ADDR,%xmm0
The documentation says ADDR has to be 16-bytes alignment otherwise #GP
is generated. And indeed the problem was with the data alignment.
After adjusting it at my side the OS works fine both with Qemu and
KVM.
It would be great if QEMU followed specification more closely and
forced SSE data alignment requirements. It will help to catch
alignment issues early and debug it easier.
$ qemu-system-x86_64 -version
QEMU emulator version 2.9.50 (v2.9.0-1363-g95eef1c68b)
Copyright (c) 2003-2017 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers
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