Re: [Qemu-devel] Bug with TARGET_PHYS_ADDR_SPACE_BITS

["Blue Swirl" <blauwirbel@gmail.com>]

On 8/19/08, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
> Chris Lalancette wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >     oVirt is currently using straight x86_64 qemu emulation for certain
> parts
> > of the architecture (we mostly use KVM, but need to use full emulation for
> a
> > couple of parts).  We recently upgraded our userspace package to kvm-72,
> but
> > found that we could not PXE boot guests when we were doing full emulation
> (under
> > kvm, we could PXE boot just fine).  We also tried using qemu SVN tip, with
> > similar results.  We ended up doing a bisect, and tracked down the problem
> to
> > this commit (from the kvm repo, but pulled from qemu):
> >
> >
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/amit/kvm-userspace.git;a=commit;h=468f7507339a5236bff8ab339eb0c1b019a95fda
> >
> > The important changes in there in terms of this bug revolves around
> > TARGET_PHYS_ADDR_SPACE_BITS in exec.c.  If I change that back to 32 (what
> it was
> > before this patch for x86_64), the PXE boot succeeds.  Also, if I remove
> > TARGET_PHYS_ADDR_SPACE_BITS > 32 conditional code in
> phys_page_find_alloc(), but
> > leave TARGET_PHYS_ADDR_SPACE_BITS as 42, the PXE boot also works.  I can't
> claim
> > to understand the conditional code I've compiled out, so I'm not sure
> where the
> > bug would be.  Does anyone have an idea what the problem might be?
> >
> >
>
>  Right now, the code just can't handle TARGET_PHYS_ADDR_SPACES_BITS > 32.
> This may help you:
>
>  diff --git a/exec.c b/exec.c
>  index a0aa7dc..cac7a87 100644
>  --- a/exec.c
>  +++ b/exec.c
>  @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ typedef struct PhysPageDesc {
>   */
>  #define L1_BITS (TARGET_VIRT_ADDR_SPACE_BITS - L2_BITS - TARGET_PAGE_BITS)
>  #else
>  -#define L1_BITS (32 - L2_BITS - TARGET_PAGE_BITS)
>  +#define L1_BITS (TARGET_PHYS_ADDR_SPACE_BITS - L2_BITS - TARGET_PAGE_BITS)
>  #endif
>
>  #define L1_SIZE (1 << L1_BITS)
>
>  But there are a lot more places in the code that assume
> TARGET_PHYS_ADDR_SPACE_BITS == 32.  I'm inclined to think that we should
> change it back to 32.

Sparc32 uses 36 bits successfully, on SS-10/20/600MP a lot of devices
are located near the top of physical address space.

Sparc64 boots using address 0x1ff f000 0020 and that uses 42 bits (top
bit zero). I think I  have found a bug...