Currently, both NetBSD and OpenBSD are hanging or crashing when running on qemu with the kqemu accelerator enabled. This happens because both systems are using a weird scheme where they are loading the GDT table with LGDT up-front (with the limit set to the maximum), but are growing the table and actually mapping the memory behind it only when needed. (see src/sys/arch/i386/i386/gdt.c in both source trees) That is causing the kqemu accelerator to generate a page fault in update_dt_cache() when trying to fill its 'soft' tlb with pages that are beyond the real end of the GDT table. With this diff applied, NetBSD and OpenBSD seem to run fine with kqemu + user-only virtualization (I've tried netbsd-4.0-rc2 and openbsd 4.2). Full virtualization (-kernel-kqemu) doesn't work yet for different reasons (I think). Regards, Adi --- xx/kqemu-1.3.0pre11/common/monitor.c Tue Feb 6 23:02:00 2007 +++ kqemu-1.3.0pre11/common/monitor.c Mon Nov 5 18:59:58 2007 @@ -990,7 +990,8 @@ static void *map_vaddr(struct kqemu_state *s, unsigned e = &s->soft_tlb[(addr >> PAGE_SHIFT) & (SOFT_TLB_SIZE - 1)]; redo: if (e->vaddr[(is_user << 1) + is_write] != (addr & PAGE_MASK)) { - soft_tlb_fill(s, addr, is_write, is_user); + if(cpu_x86_handle_mmu_fault(s, addr, is_write, is_user, 1)) + return NULL; goto redo; } else { taddr = e->addend + addr; @@ -1802,6 +1803,11 @@ static void update_dt_cache(struct kqemu_state *s, int page_end = dt_end; sel2 = sel + (page_end - dt_ptr); ptr = map_vaddr(s, dt_ptr, 0, 0); + if(!ptr) + /* Open/NetBSD have a 'dynamic' GDT, but they load the gdt + register with LGDT only once and with a limit far beyond + the end of the memory actually mapped for the table */ + goto skip_the_rest; ram_addr = ram_ptr_to_ram_addr(s, ptr); if (dt_changed || s->dt_ram_addr[dt_type][pindex] != ram_addr || @@ -1818,7 +1824,7 @@ static void update_dt_cache(struct kqemu_state *s, int sel_end = (s->dt_limit[dt_type] + 1) & ~7; if (sel < sel_end) reset_dt_entries(s, dt_type, sel, sel_end); - +skip_the_rest: s->dt_base[dt_type] = base; s->dt_limit[dt_type] = limit; }