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From: Emre Can Sezer <ecsezer@ncsu.edu>
Subject: Re: Two shadow page tables for HVM
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:15:01 -0500
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>>  I'm using 64-bit PT's and as far as I
>> can tell EFER.NXE is turned on.  At least cpu_has_nx returns true and
>> that I get page faults with PFEC_instr_fetch error with both paging modes.
>>
>> Here is the summary of page fault errors:
>> ...
>> (XEN) sh_page_fault: d:v=1:0 va=0xffffffffa000f050 err=17,
>> rip=ffffffffa000f050
>> (XEN) <ECS> Switching to ALTERNATE paging mode
>> (XEN) <ECS-alt> sh_page_fault: d:v=1:0 va=0xffffffff8062cef0 err=0,
>> rip=ffffffffa000f050
>> (XEN) <ECS-alt> sh_page_fault: d:v=1:0 va=0xffffffff805d8010 err=0,
>> rip=ffffffffa000f050
>> (XEN) <ECS-alt> sh_page_fault: d:v=1:0 va=0xffffffff8020cea0 err=10,
>> rip=ffffffff8020cea0
>> (XEN) <ECS> Switching to NORMAL paging mode
>> (XEN) <ECS> Done
>> ...
>>
>> I'm also confused about the last page fault.  No page fault occurred
>> that propagated this page's pte from the guest (I turned off
>> prefetching). I'm inclined to think that I have some artifacts from the
>> initial paging mode.
>>     
>
> Seems like a fair explanation. 
>   
The intel software development manual states:
P flag = 0 --> PF due to page not present
P flag = 1 --> PF due to protection violation

If this flag is used as it is, it would explain the error code being 0.

I'm looking into why there isn't another instruction fetch.

John





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