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From: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] i386/translate: ignore 0x67 (PREFIX_ADR) on TARGET_X86_64 && CODE64()
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 01:45:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51A29E8E.10109@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51A1C8DF.506@redhat.com>

On 05/26/13 10:33, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 26/05/2013 01:23, Richard Henderson ha scritto:
>> On 2013-05-24 14:37, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>>> @@ -4813,7 +4813,11 @@ static target_ulong disas_insn(CPUX86State
>>> *env, DisasContext *s,
>>>               /* 0x66 is ignored if rex.w is set */
>>>               dflag = 2;
>>>           }
>>> -        if (!(prefixes & PREFIX_ADR)) {
>>> +        if (prefixes & PREFIX_ADR) {
>>> +            /* flip it back, 0x67 should have no effect */
>>> +            aflag ^= 1;
>>> +        }
>>> +        else {
>>>               aflag = 2;
>>>           }
>>>       }
>>>
>>
>> Agreed that there's a bug here.  I'm thinking it would be clearer to not
>> write this as yet another flip, but understand that unlike dflag, aflag
>> can only be either 1 or 2 in 64-bit mode.
>>
>> I'm thinking of something more like this:
>>
>> diff --git a/target-i386/translate.c b/target-i386/translate.c
>> index 0aeccdb..bf772aa 100644
>> --- a/target-i386/translate.c
>> +++ b/target-i386/translate.c
>> @@ -4813,9 +4813,8 @@ static target_ulong disas_insn(CPUX86State *env,
>> DisasContext *s,
>>              /* 0x66 is ignored if rex.w is set */
>>              dflag = 2;
>>          }
>> -        if (!(prefixes & PREFIX_ADR)) {
>> -            aflag = 2;
>> -        }
>> +        /* 0x67 toggles between 64-bit and 32-bit addressing.  */
>> +        aflag = (prefixes & PREFIX_ADR ? 1 : 2);
> 
> Isn't that just "aflag++"?  Needs a comment of course ("toggle between
> 32- and 64-bit, not 16- and 32-bit.").

I finally looked up in the SDM what the 0x67 (address-size override)
prefix does. Apparently,

  2.1.1 Instruction Prefixes

    [...] The address-size override prefix (67H) allows programs to
    switch between 16- and 32-bit addressing. Either size can be the
    default; the prefix selects the non-default size. [...]

  CMPS/CMPSB/CMPSW/CMPSD/CMPSQ -- Compare String Operands

    [...] In 64-bit mode, the instruction's default address size is 64
    bits, 32 bit address size is supported using the prefix 67H. [...]

Assuming that
- aflag==0 means 16-bit address,
- aflag==1 means 32-bit address,
- aflag==2 means 64-bit address,
- and bit0 in "s->code32" carries "aflag" corresponding to the default
  address size in 32-bit mode,

I think Richard's patch is correct (my approach was only to restore the
pre-patch logic without having any clue about the variables' contents).

I believe aflag++ is incorrect if the current default address size for
32-bit is 16-bit (ie. (s->code32 & 1) == 0). In this case the first XOR
(seeing the 0x67 prefix) flips it to 1, and the increment would change
it to 2. aflag==2 corresponds to 64-bit address, but in 64-bit mode with
the 0x67 prefix we must choose 32-bit.

(IOW in 32-bit mode the meaning of the 0x67 prefix is not absolute but
relative.)

Laszlo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-26 23:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-24 21:37 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] i386/translate: ignore 0x67 (PREFIX_ADR) on TARGET_X86_64 && CODE64() Laszlo Ersek
2013-05-25 23:23 ` Richard Henderson
2013-05-26  8:33   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-26 23:45     ` Laszlo Ersek [this message]
2013-05-27  6:29       ` Paolo Bonzini

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