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Fri, 13 Sep 2024 18:26:56 +0100 (BST) From: =?utf-8?q?Alex_Benn=C3=A9e?= To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Richard Henderson , devel@lists.libvirt.org, Thomas Huth , Mahmoud Mandour , Paolo Bonzini , David Hildenbrand , Ilya Leoshkevich , qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, Zhao Liu , =?utf-8?q?Alex_Benn=C3=A9e?= , =?utf-8?q?Philippe_M?= =?utf-8?q?athieu-Daud=C3=A9?= , Yanan Wang , Eduardo Habkost , qemu-s390x@nongnu.org, Alexandre Iooss , Pierrick Bouvier , Nicholas Piggin , Daniel Henrique Barboza , Marcel Apfelbaum Subject: [PATCH 01/17] deprecation: don't enable TCG plugins by default on 32 bit hosts Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 18:26:39 +0100 Message-Id: <20240913172655.173873-2-alex.bennee@linaro.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.39.2 In-Reply-To: <20240913172655.173873-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org> References: <20240913172655.173873-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a00:1450:4864:20::336; envelope-from=alex.bennee@linaro.org; helo=mail-wm1-x336.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org The existing plugins already liberally use host pointer stuffing for passing user data which will fail when doing 64 bit guests on 32 bit hosts. We should discourage this by officially deprecating support and adding another nail to the 32 bit host coffin. Message-Id: <20240910140733.4007719-12-alex.bennee@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Pierrick Bouvier Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée --- v2 - don't manually set based on CPU type, use __SIZEOF_POINTER__ --- docs/about/deprecated.rst | 11 +++++++++++ configure | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index 88f0f03786..f7c7c33d39 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -184,6 +184,17 @@ be an effective use of its limited resources, and thus intends to discontinue it. Since all recent x86 hardware from the past >10 years is capable of the 64-bit x86 extensions, a corresponding 64-bit OS should be used instead. +TCG Plugin support not enabled by default on 32-bit hosts (since 9.2) +''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +While it is still possible to enable TCG plugin support for 32-bit +hosts there are a number of potential pitfalls when instrumenting +64-bit guests. The plugin APIs typically pass most addresses as +uint64_t but practices like encoding that address in a host pointer +for passing as user-data will lose data. As most software analysis +benefits from having plenty of host memory it seems reasonable to +encourage users to use 64 bit builds of QEMU for analysis work +whatever targets they are instrumenting. System emulator CPUs -------------------- diff --git a/configure b/configure index 7f6eb6b331..f376fa24b3 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -516,6 +516,25 @@ case "$cpu" in ;; esac +# Now we have our CPU_CFLAGS we can check if we are targeting a 32 or +# 64 bit host. + +check_64bit_host() { +cat > $TMPC <