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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Nate Case <ncase@xes-inc.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Guest memory backed by PCI BAR (x86)
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 17:40:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55143676.1040709@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57551226.56219.1427387686368.JavaMail.zimbra@xes-inc.com>



On 26/03/2015 17:34, Nate Case wrote:
>    0x52:        add    al,dh
>    0x54:        pop    cx
>    0x55:        clc    
>    0x56:        add    al,dh
> => 0x58:        cs
>    0x59:        call   0xf05c
>    0x5c:        shr    bh,cl
>    0x5e:        add    al,dh
>    0x60:        add    ax,0xcf
>    0x63:        lock repnz out 0x0,al

This code makes no sense, it looks like the processor has gone into the
weeds. :(

Based on this:

cs             0x9020   36896

I could guess, based on your use of resource2_wc, that the host is
bypassing the processor cache but the guest is not.  This use is not
supported on x86 KVM, sorry.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-26 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-25 15:56 Guest memory backed by PCI BAR (x86) Nate Case
2015-03-26 14:02 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-03-26 16:01   ` Nate Case
2015-03-26 16:07     ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-03-26 16:34       ` Nate Case
2015-03-26 16:40         ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-03-26 16:52           ` Nate Case
2015-03-26 17:04             ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-03-26 17:14               ` Nate Case
2015-03-27 15:27               ` Nate Case

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