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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Richard Simpson <rs1002@huskydog.org.uk>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Setting nx bit in virtual CPU
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:34:15 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BC0D2B7.5000801@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BBE6D09.7000207@huskydog.org.uk>

On 04/09/2010 02:55 AM, Richard Simpson wrote:
> On 08/04/10 08:23, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>    
>> Strange.  Can you hack qemu-kvm's cpuid code where it issues the ioctl
>> KVM_SET_CPUID2 to show what the data is?  I'm not where that code is in
>> your version of qemu-kvm.
>>      
>
> So, basically I go round a loop and print out the contents of each
> kvm_cpuid_entry2 structure.
>
> Results below, using Andre Przywara's handy nano-kernel.  I do hope that
> some of this makes some kind of sense!
>
> qemu-kvm -kernel cpuid_mb -vnc :0
>
>
> 80000000 0 0 8000000a 68747541 444d4163 69746e65
> 80000001 0 0 623 0 1 2181abfd
>    

80000001 edx bit 20 is NX, which is cleared.  So it is qemu-kvm at fault 
here.

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-10 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-29 22:16 Setting nx bit in virtual CPU Richard Simpson
2010-03-30  2:12 ` Chris Wright
2010-03-30 20:42   ` Richard Simpson
2010-04-01  8:43 ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-02 21:07   ` Richard Simpson
2010-04-05  8:27     ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-06 22:31       ` Richard Simpson
2010-04-07  5:39         ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-07 12:10           ` Richard Simpson
2010-04-07 12:23             ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-07 20:38               ` Richard Simpson
2010-04-07 20:48                 ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-07 23:13                   ` Richard Simpson
2010-04-08  7:23                     ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-08 23:55                       ` Richard Simpson
2010-04-10 19:34                         ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-04-08  8:52                   ` Andre Przywara
2010-04-08 21:23                     ` Richard Simpson
2010-04-09 23:45                       ` Andre Przywara
2010-04-12 21:15                         ` Richard Simpson

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