From: Marius Vlad <mv@sec.uni-passau.de>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: "kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm-unit-tests: Fix GCC's 4.8 labels as values for nVMX tests.
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 18:09:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140224170931.GA7783@lea.sec.uni-passau.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <530B6C35.2090605@siemens.com>
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On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 04:58:45PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2014-02-24 16:25, Marius Vlad wrote:
> > Commit 3b1274463fa8d074dd3bc77efe25b59a4ddd491e uses GCCs extension
> > labels as values to handle exceptions, but GCC 4.8 ``mistakingly''
> > uses the next body function as a jump label, for functions which
> > do not return. Fixed by returning a int value for those functions.
> >
> > See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/119186
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Marius Vlad <mv@sec.uni-passau.de>
> > ---
> > x86/vmx.c | 10 +++++-----
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/x86/vmx.c b/x86/vmx.c
> > index fe950e6..0c895af 100644
> > --- a/x86/vmx.c
> > +++ b/x86/vmx.c
> > @@ -548,7 +548,7 @@ static void exception_handler(struct ex_regs *regs)
> > regs->rip = (u64)exception_return;
> > }
> >
> > -static int test_for_exception(unsigned int ex, void (*func)(void))
> > +static int test_for_exception(unsigned int ex, int (*func)(void))
> > {
> > handle_exception(ex, exception_handler);
> > exception = false;
> > @@ -557,23 +557,23 @@ static int test_for_exception(unsigned int ex, void (*func)(void))
> > return exception;
> > }
> >
> > -static void do_vmxon_off(void)
> > +static int do_vmxon_off(void)
> > {
> > exception_return = &&resume;
> > barrier();
> > vmx_on();
> > vmx_off();
> > resume:
> > - return;
> > + return 0;
> > }
> >
> > -static void do_write_feature_control(void)
> > +static int do_write_feature_control(void)
> > {
> > exception_return = &&resume;
> > barrier();
> > wrmsr(MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL, 0);
> > resume:
> > - return;
> > + return 0;
> > }
> >
> > static int test_vmx_feature_control(void)
> >
>
I see, no biggie, my fault for not looking on the list before going any deeper :-).
> Argh, getting old. I remembered that issue but forgot that I already had
> a fix for this queued:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/117866
>
> I don't mind which version to pick, but maybe Paolo has mine already in
> his queue.
>
> Sorry for the duplicate work.
>
> Jan
>
> --
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>
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-24 15:25 [PATCH] kvm-unit-tests: Fix GCC's 4.8 labels as values for nVMX tests Marius Vlad
2014-02-24 15:58 ` Jan Kiszka
2014-02-24 17:09 ` Marius Vlad [this message]
2014-02-25 14:26 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-25 15:05 ` Jan Kiszka
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