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From: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
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	X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
	"linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>, Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>,
	Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com>,
	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>, Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	"Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	P
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] x86: enable User-Mode Instruction Prevention
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 10:59:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161114105911.62a6821c@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1478760361.2551.21.camel@ranerica-desktop>

> I took a closer look at the dosemu code. It appears that it does not

That doesn't tell you want DOS itself will try and do...

> purposely utilize SGDT to obtain the descriptor table while in vm86. It
> does use SGDT (in protected mode) to emulate certain functionality such
> as the Virtual xxx Driver. In such a case, UMIP needs to be disabled.
> However, this code seems to be disabled [1]. dosemu includes an i386
> emulator that in some cases uses the actual instructions of the host
> system. In such cases, UMIP might be needed to be disabled.

Is anyone actually still using DOSemu these days or are people all
using DOSbox ?

Alan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-11-14 10:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2016-11-10  6:46         ` [PATCH 0/4] x86: enable User-Mode Instruction Prevention Ricardo Neri
2016-11-10  8:52           ` Stas Sergeev
2016-11-11  4:14             ` Ricardo Neri
2016-11-11 20:51               ` Stas Sergeev
2016-11-12  1:29                 ` Ricardo Neri
2016-11-14 10:59           ` One Thousand Gnomes [this message]
2016-11-14 18:36             ` Harald Arnesen

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