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From: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
To: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier-6ktuUTfB/bM@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Correct management of REP prefix
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:11:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4701E12A.5020909@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11912292661049-git-send-email-Laurent.Vivier-6ktuUTfB/bM@public.gmane.org>

Laurent Vivier wrote:
> This patch corrects some errors appearing when we have an emulation failure
> on an operation using REP prefix.
>
> When x86_emulate_insn() fails, saving EIP and ECX is not enough as emulation
> should have modified other registers like RSI or RDI. Moreover, the emulation
> can fail on the writeback, and in this case we are not able to restore
> registers.
>
> At beginning of x86_emulate_insn(), we restore registers from vcpu as they were
> not modified by x86d_decode_insn() and we save EIP to be able to restore it
> in case of failure.
>
>   


Applied, thanks.

-- 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-02  6:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-27 21:34 [PATCH] Correct management of REP prefix Laurent Vivier
     [not found] ` <1190928863669-git-send-email-Laurent.Vivier-6ktuUTfB/bM@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-30  9:06   ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]     ` <46FF6702.2060203-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-10-01  8:55       ` Laurent Vivier
     [not found]         ` <4700B611.1000803-6ktuUTfB/bM@public.gmane.org>
2007-10-02  6:14           ` Avi Kivity
2007-10-01  9:01   ` Laurent Vivier
     [not found]     ` <11912292661049-git-send-email-Laurent.Vivier-6ktuUTfB/bM@public.gmane.org>
2007-10-02  6:11       ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2007-10-02 22:23       ` Kamble, Nitin A
     [not found]         ` <5461330FA59EDB46BE9AB8AAF2C431AD055A4295-1a9uaKK1+wJcIJlls4ac1rfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2007-10-03  7:23           ` Laurent Vivier
     [not found]             ` <4703438A.6010307-6ktuUTfB/bM@public.gmane.org>
2007-10-03 17:10               ` Kamble, Nitin A

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