From: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
To: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: x86 emulator: modify 'cmpxchg8b', 'lods', 'stos' to not depend on CR2
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:05:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <473C19EA.80804@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711151531.50461.sheng.yang-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Sheng Yang wrote:
> From c7b60a362930679e24df27e6a412cdbdf1a55f69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:52:28 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: x86 emulator: modify 'cmpxchg8b', 'lods', 'stos' to
> not depend on CR2
>
> The current 'lods' and 'stos' is depending on incoming CR2 rather than decode
> memory address from registers.
>
Applied, thanks.
> diff --git a/drivers/kvm/x86_emulate.c b/drivers/kvm/x86_emulate.c
> index dfcbda5..c020010 100644
> --- a/drivers/kvm/x86_emulate.c
> +++ b/drivers/kvm/x86_emulate.c
> @@ -214,7 +214,8 @@ static u16 twobyte_table[256] = {
> 0, 0, ByteOp | DstReg | SrcMem | ModRM | Mov,
> DstReg | SrcMem16 | ModRM | Mov,
> /* 0xC0 - 0xCF */
> - 0, 0, 0, DstMem | SrcReg | ModRM | Mov, 0, 0, 0, ImplicitOps | ModRM,
> + 0, 0, 0, DstMem | SrcReg | ModRM | Mov,
> + 0, 0, 0, ImplicitOps | ModRM | MemAbs,
> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
> /* 0xD0 - 0xDF */
> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
>
Dropped this part: ModRM and MemAbs are mutually exclusive. MemAbs is
where you have an absolute address in the instruction that is not
encoded with mod r/m.
Didn't see anything else about cmpchg{8,16}b. Is something missing?
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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2007-11-15 7:31 [PATCH 1/2] KVM: x86 emulator: modify 'cmpxchg8b', 'lods', 'stos' to not depend on CR2 Sheng Yang
[not found] ` <200711151531.50461.sheng.yang-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2007-11-15 10:05 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
[not found] ` <473C19EA.80804-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-11-16 2:11 ` Sheng Yang
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