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From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
	Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] target-s390x: fix LOAD MULTIPLE instruction on page boundary
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 23:43:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5564E91D.1050504@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55649C14.1050207@twiddle.net>



On 26.05.15 18:15, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 05/26/2015 02:09 AM, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>> This is an important detail in case the base register is in the list
>> of registers to be loaded. If a page fault occurs this register might be
>> overwritten and when the instruction is later restarted the wrong
>> base register value is useD.
>>
>> Fix this by first loading the first and last value from memory, hence
>> triggering all possible page faults, and then the remaining registers.
>>
>> This fixes random segmentation faults seen in the guest.
>>
>> Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
>> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
>> Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
>> ---
>>  target-s390x/translate.c | 128 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>>  1 file changed, 99 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
>>
>> Changes v1->v2:
>> - Do the load in two steps: first and last registers, and then the remaining ones
> 
> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>

Thanks, applied to s390-next.

So what do we do about the other patch set?


Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-26 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-26  9:09 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] target-s390x: fix LOAD MULTIPLE instruction on page boundary Aurelien Jarno
2015-05-26 16:15 ` Richard Henderson
2015-05-26 21:43   ` Alexander Graf [this message]
2015-05-26 22:10     ` Aurelien Jarno

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