It's pretty easy to put qemu in an endless exception loop, for that it's enough to set up VBAR incorrectly. Normally this doesn't bother anybody, but if you add "-d int" then it becames pretty annoying, flooding your terminal or creating hundreds of megabytes of log files in no time (and growing).
This dirty hack detects such exception loops and quits qemu when you use "-d int". I do not expect this to get into the mainline, because this is only useful for bare metal developers making mistakes in their early development stage.
- download latest qemu source
- overwrite files from this repo (or if you prefer patches, the diff is here)
- compile qemu
./configure --target-list=aarch64-softmmu --enable-modules --enable-tcg-interpreter --enable-debug-tcg
make -j4- install qemu
sudo make installEnjoy!
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