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From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>,
	Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.33-rc2: Xen/Guest switching to user mode with no user page tables
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:49:51 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100110134951.GD5189@lenovo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100110133628.GC5189@lenovo>

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 04:36:28PM +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
...
> > 
> > With just the CS RPL fix below I see a GPF at kernel_thread_helper with
> > SS=3 (hence my hypothesis about NULL selectors and non-zero RPL above).
> > With both the SS and CS fixes things work fine.
> 
> any of CS,SS loaded with NULL descriptor should lead to #GP
> 

though SS with RPL=0 is allowed to be NULL descriptor in 64bit mode

> > 
> > Ian.
> > 
> > --- 
> > Subject: xen: 64 bit kernel RPL should be 0.
> > 
> ...
> 
> Good catch Ian! I've noted that Xen use it's own get_kernel_rpl
> while discussing this problem in a chat. But I must admit *I simply don't know*
> what Xen does, or how it works internally (neither I have will to learn it at
> moment :)
> 
> That said -- I'm happy if yor patch fixes problem (and it looks that
> get_kernel_rpl is guilty here indeed).
> 
> 	-- Cyrill

	-- Cyrill

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-10 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-06  1:03 2.6.33-rc2: Xen/Guest switching to user mode with no user page tables Christian Kujau
2010-01-06  3:38 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-01-06  3:48   ` Christian Kujau
2010-01-06  5:14     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-01-06 11:06   ` Christian Kujau
2010-01-06 11:21     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-01-06 12:43       ` Christian Kujau
2010-01-07 19:06         ` Christian Kujau
2010-01-07 19:20           ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-01-07 19:31             ` Christian Kujau
2010-01-07 19:34               ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-01-07 19:19         ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-07 19:30           ` Christian Kujau
2010-01-08 21:50             ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-01-09 23:55               ` Christian Kujau
2010-01-10  1:50               ` Brian Gerst
2010-01-10  8:09                 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-01-10 12:59                   ` Ian Campbell
2010-01-10 13:36                     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-01-10 13:49                       ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2010-01-10 14:05                         ` Ian Campbell
2010-01-15  8:36                     ` Christian Kujau
2010-01-15 11:29                       ` Ian Campbell
2010-01-15 12:03                         ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-01-15 12:00                       ` Cyrill Gorcunov

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