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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: "Robert Kaiser (FH)" <kaiser@informatik.fh-wiesbaden.de>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] xen: remove support for non-PAE 32-bit
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 14:59:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48299ED0.6020402@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200805131528.09429.kaiser@informatik.fh-wiesbaden.de>

Robert Kaiser (FH) wrote:
>> I think there's a bug in qemu's x86 
>> emulation with respect to mis-reporting the eip of an xchg which faults,
>> which may be what you're seeing.
>>     
>
> The eip that was reported was always the same, and there was no xchg 
> instruction at that address. It might have been consistently wrong though 
> (how would I figure this out?).
>   

The symptom I've observed is that qemu reports the first instruction of 
the basic block rather than the exchange itself.  If you "x/10i <fault 
eip>", you should see an xchg before long.

Either way, sounds like a qemu bug which should be reported to them.

    J

      reply	other threads:[~2008-05-13 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-09 11:05 [PATCH] xen: remove support for non-PAE 32-bit Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-13 11:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-13 11:32   ` [Xen-devel] " Robert Kaiser (FH)
2008-05-13 11:42     ` Keir Fraser
2008-05-13 11:48     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-13 13:28       ` Robert Kaiser (FH)
2008-05-13 13:59         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]

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