On 04/10/21 01:02, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
That said, I have no idea what's going in that code or why
kvm_fastop_exception() is clearing %esi.
It's handled here (which definitely qualifies as "funky sh*t"):
asm("push %[flags]; popf; " CALL_NOSPEC " ; pushf; pop %[flags]\n"
: "+a"(ctxt->dst.val), "+d"(ctxt->src.val), [flags]"+D"(flags),
[thunk_target]"+S"(fop), ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT
: "c"(ctxt->src2.val));
ctxt->eflags = (ctxt->eflags & ~EFLAGS_MASK) | (flags & EFLAGS_MASK);
if (!fop) /* exception is returned in fop variable */
return emulate_de(ctxt);
and documented here:
/*
* fastop functions have a special calling convention:
*
* dst: rax (in/out)
* src: rdx (in/out)
* src2: rcx (in)
* flags: rflags (in/out)
* ex: rsi (in:fastop pointer, out:zero if exception)
*
* Moreover, they are all exactly FASTOP_SIZE bytes long, so functions for
* different operand sizes can be reached by calculation, rather than a jump
* table (which would be bigger than the code).
*/
The fastop stuff saves quite a few clock cycles and lines of code, by
avoiding complicated emulation of x86 flags. I'll check out the .global
annotations, since they are indeed unnecessary.
Paolo
