[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] set correct CS seg limit and flags on sipi

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>]

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Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 01:34:01PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Gleb Natapov wrote:
>>> TCG works with incorrect values somehow.
>> TCG doesn't care about limits and has only few segment type checks.
> I already noticed that TCG implement some non existent CPU somewhat
> similar to x86.

I once posted a patch that added full limit/flags check on memory
access. But it required more work and slowed down TCG quite noticeably.
Meanwhile we are only using KVM and don't require this precision
anymore, so this effort stalled.

> 
>> Some link to the corresponding spec section would be nice-to-have in
>> this commit message. I was looking for a reference what registers SIPIs
>> actually modify and how, but there seems to be none, at least in the
>> System Programming Guide.
>>
> This commit just fix obvious bug that caused SIPI to put garbage into
> segment's flags. I don't have link to spec only common sense.

I don't disagree. I was just wondering if it loads the specified reset
values into the flags or just keeps them untouched. BTW, looks like
BOCHS takes your path too (ie. don't touch them).

Jan


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