From: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
qemu-stable <qemu-stable@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] x86: only allow real mode to access 32bit without LMA
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 19:57:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52A21E01.8020603@weilnetz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52A21BE9.2070201@msgid.tls.msk.ru>
Am 06.12.2013 19:48, schrieb Michael Tokarev:
> 06.12.2013 16:52, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> When we're running in non-64bit mode with qemu-system-x86_64 we can
>> still end up with virtual addresses that are above the 32bit boundary
>> if a segment offset is set up.
>>
>> GNU Hurd does exactly that. It sets the segment offset to 0x80000000 and
>> puts its EIP value to 0x8xxxxxxx to access low memory.
>>
>> This doesn't hit us when we enable paging, as there we just mask away the
>> unused bits. But with real mode, we assume that vaddr == paddr which is
>> wrong in this case. Real hardware wraps the virtual address around at the
>> 32bit boundary. So let's do the same.
>>
>> This fixes booting GNU Hurd in qemu-system-x86_64 for me.
>>
>> Reported-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
>> ---
>> target-i386/helper.c | 6 ++++++
>> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/target-i386/helper.c b/target-i386/helper.c
>> index 7c196ff..ed965d6 100644
>> --- a/target-i386/helper.c
>> +++ b/target-i386/helper.c
>> @@ -531,6 +531,12 @@ int cpu_x86_handle_mmu_fault(CPUX86State *env, target_ulong addr,
>>
>> if (!(env->cr[0] & CR0_PG_MASK)) {
>> pte = addr;
>> +#ifdef TARGET_X86_64
>> + if (!(env->hflags & HF_LMA_MASK)) {
>> + /* Without long mode we can only address 32bits in real mode */
>> + pte = (uint32_t)pte;
>> + }
>> +#endif
>> virt_addr = addr & TARGET_PAGE_MASK;
>> prot = PAGE_READ | PAGE_WRITE | PAGE_EXEC;
>> page_size = 4096;
>
> Tested-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
>
> Well, it isn't much of testing, I too just run hurd image and see that
> it can work in qemu-x86_64 tcg mode, while without this patch it
> segfaults.
>
> Should I apply this to trivial queue? :)
>
> Thanks,
>
> /mjt
Maybe your trivial queue would be the fasted way to get it into the
official repository. :-)
I added qemu-stable to the addressees, because this is useful for the
stable branches as well.
Regards,
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-06 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-06 12:52 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] x86: only allow real mode to access 32bit without LMA Alexander Graf
2013-12-06 17:46 ` Richard Henderson
2013-12-06 18:48 ` Michael Tokarev
2013-12-06 18:57 ` Stefan Weil [this message]
2013-12-07 18:49 ` Michael Tokarev
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