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From: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
To: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: x86 emulator: modify 'cmpxchg8b', 'lods', 'stos' to not depend on CR2
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:05:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <473C19EA.80804@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711151531.50461.sheng.yang-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>

Sheng Yang wrote:
> From c7b60a362930679e24df27e6a412cdbdf1a55f69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:52:28 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: x86 emulator: modify 'cmpxchg8b', 'lods', 'stos' to 
> not depend on CR2
>
> The current 'lods' and 'stos' is depending on incoming CR2 rather than decode
> memory address from registers.
>   


Applied, thanks.

> diff --git a/drivers/kvm/x86_emulate.c b/drivers/kvm/x86_emulate.c
> index dfcbda5..c020010 100644
> --- a/drivers/kvm/x86_emulate.c
> +++ b/drivers/kvm/x86_emulate.c
> @@ -214,7 +214,8 @@ static u16 twobyte_table[256] = {
>  	0, 0, ByteOp | DstReg | SrcMem | ModRM | Mov,
>  	    DstReg | SrcMem16 | ModRM | Mov,
>  	/* 0xC0 - 0xCF */
> -	0, 0, 0, DstMem | SrcReg | ModRM | Mov, 0, 0, 0, ImplicitOps | ModRM,
> +	0, 0, 0, DstMem | SrcReg | ModRM | Mov,
> +	0, 0, 0, ImplicitOps | ModRM | MemAbs,
>  	0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
>  	/* 0xD0 - 0xDF */
>  	0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
>   

Dropped this part: ModRM and MemAbs are mutually exclusive. MemAbs is 
where you have an absolute address in the instruction that is not 
encoded with mod r/m.

Didn't see anything else about cmpchg{8,16}b.  Is something missing?


-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-15 10:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-15  7:31 [PATCH 1/2] KVM: x86 emulator: modify 'cmpxchg8b', 'lods', 'stos' to not depend on CR2 Sheng Yang
     [not found] ` <200711151531.50461.sheng.yang-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2007-11-15 10:05   ` Avi Kivity [this message]
     [not found]     ` <473C19EA.80804-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-11-16  2:11       ` Sheng Yang

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