From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: more segment/selector handling woes
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:43:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <456437DD.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> (raw)
Not only on VMX and in generic code, but also on SVM now:
svm_get_io_address() uses the segment base only when the guest
is not in long mode - what if outs has an fs/gs override? I'm pretty
sure the base address is needed then, which opens the question -
does the CPU guarantee a valid (zero) base also for the other
segment register, or does this need to be conditionalized?
Further, in the same function (and likely elsewhere) the injection
of GP faults seems pretty pointless - if either of the two
conditions is true, then the CPU itself should have raised a GP
fault for the guest already (i.e. execution flow would never get
here).
Thanks, Jan
next reply other threads:[~2006-11-22 10:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-22 10:43 Jan Beulich [this message]
2006-11-22 11:31 ` more segment/selector handling woes Petersson, Mats
2006-11-22 11:45 ` Jan Beulich
2006-11-22 12:09 ` Petersson, Mats
2006-11-22 12:43 ` Petersson, Mats
2006-11-22 13:08 ` Jan Beulich
2006-11-22 13:36 ` Petersson, Mats
2006-11-23 13:06 ` Petersson, Mats
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