From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Abhiroop Dabral <abhiroop.dabral@gmail.com>,
boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com,
Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: HVMLOADER test fails on AMD if CR3 write intercepts are enabled (XEN 4.4 stable)
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 11:20:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140804152008.GA20097@laptop.dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKuLJhBsPyo89hrO1EDcKG+rOvgwuwLkp1knfWt5Yzz5CFJq1g@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 07:03:35PM -0600, Abhiroop Dabral wrote:
> Hi,
Hey,
Please use the MAINTAINERs file in the future to make sure that
the maintainers of the AMD SVM code can see this email. I've
done that for you.
>
> The HVMLOADER test fails on AMD SVM with Nested Paging enabled **Only**
> when CR3 control registers write intercepts are enabled.
> (By default the CR3 write intercepts are disabled on HAP domains)
How did you enable the cr3 interception? Was there an configuration
flag or was this something you modified in Xen?
>
> The first test "rep_io" fails with the following output:
>
> Bad value at 0x00500000: saw 98765432 expected 987654ff
>
> Bad value at 0x00500ffc: saw 00000000 expected ff000000
>
> Bad value at 0x00600000: saw 000000ff expected 00000000
>
> Bad value at 0x00600ffc: saw ff000000 expected 00000000
>
> The second test execution results in the triple fault.
>
> The paging is setup as writing to va 0x600000 a value of 98765432 works
> fine. (Since the test can see the same value at physical address 0x500000).
>
> But after that the insb mov to address are not writing the memory correctly.
>
> The only change made in the code is to enable CR3 intercepts on a similar
> lines as done in VMX counterpart.
>
> Seen in:
>
> Xen 4.4 stable, AMD SVM with HAP
>
> Can any one suggest what can be the issue behind this.
>
> thanks.
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2014-07-28 1:03 HVMLOADER test fails on AMD if CR3 write intercepts are enabled (XEN 4.4 stable) Abhiroop Dabral
2014-08-04 15:20 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
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