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From: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: I/O port permission bit inheritance between threads
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 11:50:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130521095030.GC7424@8bytes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130520142431.5221e2d0@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>

Hey Stephen,

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 02:24:31PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> ioperm() inheritance across threads is different in KVM then when run
> on physical hardware.  The following program runs on physical hardware
> but get SEGV under KVM.
> 
> It appears that the I/O permission bits are not shared between threads
> in the same way.

Is this specific to SVM or do you see it on VMX too? My first guess
would be that the KVM instruction emulator does not check to
IO-permissions correctly, but that would affect VMX and SVM.


	Joerg



  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-21  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-20 21:24 I/O port permission bit inheritance between threads Stephen Hemminger
2013-05-21  9:50 ` Joerg Roedel [this message]
2013-05-21 10:01   ` Gleb Natapov
2013-05-21 15:27     ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-05-23  9:27       ` Gleb Natapov

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