From: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com>,
"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Petr Matousek <pmatouse@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] qemu(-dm): aborting on wrong mmio size?
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:04:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F27CAAE.8070602@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F27D232020000780007012B@nat28.tlf.novell.com>
On 01/31/12 11:36, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 31.01.12 at 10:34, Laszlo Ersek<lersek@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Is it justified to kill the emulator when this happens (eg. memory
>> mapped IO with 64-bit operand)?
> The AMD manual specifies that REX.W is ignored; the Intel manual
> doesn't mention REX at all here. However, if a decoder incorrectly
> decodes the guest instruction, that's a bug there. So imo qemu
> validly treats this condition as fatal.
From the Itanium(R) SDM rev 2.3,
10.7.2.1 I/O Port Addressing Restrictions
For the 64MB physical I/O port block the following operations are
undefined and may result in unpredictable processor operation;
references larger than 4-bytes, [...]
It seems that not only a decoding failure can trigger this.
Laszlo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-31 11:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-31 9:34 [Qemu-devel] qemu(-dm): aborting on wrong mmio size? Laszlo Ersek
2012-01-31 10:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2012-01-31 10:54 ` Laszlo Ersek
2012-01-31 11:04 ` Laszlo Ersek [this message]
2012-01-31 13:14 ` Jan Beulich
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