From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>,
mtosatti@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 16/30] KVM: x86 emulator: If LOCK prefix is used dest arg should be memory.
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:43:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100316094349.GB1365@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B9F515F.2050406@redhat.com>
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:37:35AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 03/15/2010 08:10 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> >On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:46:20PM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
> >>Gleb Natapov wrote:
> >>>If LOCK prefix is used dest arg should be memory, otherwise instruction
> >>>should generate #UD.
> >>Well, there is one exception:
> >>There is an AMD specific "lock mov cr0 = mov cr8" equivalence, where
> >>there is no memory involved (and we intercept this). I am not sure
> >>if anyone actually uses this code sequence, but it is definitely
> >>legal.
> >>
> >Even without this patch "lock mov cr0" will cause #UD to be injected by
> >emulator since mov does not have Lock in opcode table. Also it look like
> >Intel does not support this extension so no portable program can use
> >it.
> >
>
> A portable program can check for this instruction in cpuid and only
> issue it if it is supported.
>
Yes, indeed there is cpuid for that. It looks like our decoder needs one
more layer of transformation to distinguish between regular prefixes and
prefixes that modifies opcode meaning.
--
Gleb.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-16 9:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-15 14:38 [PATCH v3 00/30] emulator cleanup Gleb Natapov
2010-03-15 14:38 ` [PATCH v3 01/30] KVM: x86 emulator: Fix DstAcc decoding Gleb Natapov
2010-03-15 14:38 ` [PATCH v3 02/30] KVM: x86 emulator: fix RCX access during rep emulation Gleb Natapov
2010-03-15 14:38 ` [PATCH v3 03/30] KVM: x86 emulator: check return value against correct define Gleb Natapov
2010-03-15 14:38 ` [PATCH v3 04/30] KVM: Remove pointer to rflags from realmode_set_cr parameters Gleb Natapov
2010-03-15 14:38 ` [PATCH v3 05/30] KVM: Provide callback to get/set control registers in emulator ops Gleb Natapov
2010-03-15 14:38 ` [PATCH v3 06/30] KVM: remove realmode_lmsw function Gleb Natapov
2010-03-15 14:38 ` [PATCH v3 07/30] KVM: Provide x86_emulate_ctxt callback to get current cpl Gleb Natapov
2010-03-15 14:38 ` [PATCH v3 08/30] KVM: Provide current eip as part of emulator context Gleb Natapov
2010-03-15 14:38 ` [PATCH v3 09/30] KVM: x86 emulator: fix mov r/m, sreg emulation Gleb Natapov
2010-03-15 14:38 ` [PATCH v3 10/30] KVM: x86 emulator: fix 0f 01 /5 emulation Gleb Natapov
2010-03-15 14:38 ` [PATCH v3 11/30] KVM: x86 emulator: 0f (20|21|22|23) ignore mod bits Gleb Natapov
2010-03-15 14:38 ` [PATCH v3 12/30] KVM: x86 emulator: inject #UD on access to non-existing CR Gleb Natapov
2010-03-15 14:38 ` [PATCH v3 13/30] KVM: x86 emulator: fix mov dr to inject #UD when needed Gleb Natapov
2010-03-15 14:38 ` [PATCH v3 14/30] KVM: x86 emulator: fix return values of syscall/sysenter/sysexit emulations Gleb Natapov
2010-03-15 14:38 ` [PATCH v3 15/30] KVM: x86 emulator: do not call writeback if msr access fails Gleb Natapov
2010-03-15 14:38 ` [PATCH v3 16/30] KVM: x86 emulator: If LOCK prefix is used dest arg should be memory Gleb Natapov
2010-03-15 15:46 ` Andre Przywara
2010-03-15 15:50 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-15 18:10 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-03-16 9:37 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-16 9:43 ` Gleb Natapov [this message]
2010-03-15 14:38 ` [PATCH v3 17/30] KVM: x86 emulator: cleanup grp3 return value Gleb Natapov
2010-03-15 14:38 ` [PATCH v3 18/30] KVM: x86 emulator: Provide more callbacks for x86 emulator Gleb Natapov
2010-03-15 14:38 ` [PATCH v3 19/30] KVM: x86 emulator: Emulate task switch in emulator.c Gleb Natapov
2010-03-15 14:38 ` [PATCH v3 20/30] KVM: x86 emulator: Use load_segment_descriptor() instead of kvm_load_segment_descriptor() Gleb Natapov
2010-03-15 14:38 ` [PATCH v3 21/30] KVM: Use task switch from emulator.c Gleb Natapov
2010-03-15 14:38 ` [PATCH v3 22/30] KVM: x86 emulator: populate OP_MEM operand during decoding Gleb Natapov
2010-03-15 14:38 ` [PATCH v3 23/30] KVM: x86 emulator: add decoding of X,Y parameters from Intel SDM Gleb Natapov
2010-03-15 14:38 ` [PATCH v3 24/30] KVM: x86 emulator: during rep emulation decrement ECX only if emulation succeeded Gleb Natapov
2010-03-15 14:38 ` [PATCH v3 25/30] KVM: x86 emulator: fix in/out emulation Gleb Natapov
2010-03-15 14:38 ` [PATCH v3 26/30] KVM: x86 emulator: Move string pio emulation into emulator.c Gleb Natapov
2010-03-15 14:38 ` [PATCH v3 27/30] KVM: x86 emulator: remove saved_eip Gleb Natapov
2010-03-15 14:38 ` [PATCH v3 28/30] KVM: x86 emulator: restart string instruction without going back to a guest Gleb Natapov
2010-03-15 14:38 ` [PATCH v3 29/30] KVM: x86 emulator: introduce pio in string read ahead Gleb Natapov
2010-03-15 14:38 ` [PATCH v3 30/30] KVM: small kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run() cleanup Gleb Natapov
2010-03-15 15:04 ` [PATCH v3 00/30] emulator cleanup Avi Kivity
2010-03-15 15:51 ` Andre Przywara
2010-03-15 16:57 ` Gleb Natapov
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