From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>
To: Mats Petersson <Mats.Petersson@amd.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: RE: [PATCH] support protected mode mmio with non-zero CS base
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:36:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45640C04.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <907625E08839C4409CE5768403633E0B018E1746@sefsexmb1.amd.com>
>> realmode = hvm_realmode(v);
>> if ( realmode )
>> - inst_addr = (regs->cs << 4) + regs->eip;
>> + inst_addr = regs->cs << 4;
>> else
>> - inst_addr = regs->eip;
>> + inst_addr = hvm_get_segment_base(current, seg_cs);
>
>Remove the "if ( realmode ) " and just use the segment base address. The
>base-address in the register should be correct even in realmod, or the
>processor is broken. [I don't think this code is being executed from
>vmxassist - if it is, then that's a different special case!].
I intentionally didn't, as at least on VMX the read operation could
be significantly slower than a shift (and due to the indirect call it will
be slower even on SVM).
>Theoretically, you should also check that (eip <= segment.limit), and
>issue GP-fault if not true.
Again intentionally no: If the original instruction managed to generate
a page fault, than it must have been entirely within limits - otherwise
hardware would have generated a GP fault.
Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-22 7:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-21 16:55 [PATCH] support protected mode mmio with non-zero CS base Jan Beulich
2006-11-21 17:03 ` Petersson, Mats
2006-11-22 7:36 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2006-11-22 7:51 ` Keir Fraser
2006-11-22 11:15 ` Petersson, Mats
2006-11-22 11:24 ` Jan Beulich
2006-11-22 11:44 ` Keir Fraser
2006-11-22 12:46 ` Jan Beulich
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