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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Subject: VMX and save/restore guest in virtual-8086 mode
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 17:24:00 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100407202400.GA29595@amt.cnet> (raw)


During initialization, WinXP.32 switches to virtual-8086 mode, with
paging enabled, to use VGABIOS functions.

Since enter_pmode unconditionally clears IOPL and VM bits in RFLAGS

        flags = vmcs_readl(GUEST_RFLAGS);
        flags &= ~(X86_EFLAGS_IOPL | X86_EFLAGS_VM);
        flags |= (vmx->rmode.save_iopl << IOPL_SHIFT);
        vmcs_writel(GUEST_RFLAGS, flags);

And the order of loading state is set_regs (rflags) followed by
set_sregs (cr0), these bits are lost across save/restore:

savevm 1
kvm_arch_save_regs EIP=7a04 cr0=8001003b eflags=33286
system_reset
loadvm 1
kvm_arch_save_regs EIP=7a04 cr0=8001003b eflags=10286
cont
kvm: unhandled exit 80000021
kvm_run returned -22

The following patch fixes it, but it has some drawbacks:

- cpu_synchronize_state+writeback is noticeably slow with tpr patching,
  this makes it slower.
- Should be conditional on VMX !unrestricted guest.
- Its a fugly workaround.

Any better ideas?

diff --git a/qemu-kvm-x86.c b/qemu-kvm-x86.c
index 748ff69..9821653 100644
--- a/qemu-kvm-x86.c
+++ b/qemu-kvm-x86.c
@@ -956,6 +956,7 @@ void kvm_arch_load_regs(CPUState *env, int level)
     sregs.efer = env->efer;
 
     kvm_set_sregs(env, &sregs);
+    kvm_set_regs(env, &regs);
 
     /* msrs */
     n = 0;





             reply	other threads:[~2010-04-07 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-07 20:24 Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2010-04-07 20:46 ` VMX and save/restore guest in virtual-8086 mode Avi Kivity
2010-04-08  7:22   ` Jan Kiszka
2010-04-08  7:29     ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-08  7:54       ` Jan Kiszka
2010-04-08  8:05         ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-08 14:16           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-04-08 14:47             ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-08 14:56             ` Jan Kiszka
2010-04-08 14:47         ` Marcelo Tosatti

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