On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 08/11/2010 07:20 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>
>> On 08/11/2010 07:04 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>>
>>> This is 32-bit code, yet from the trace:
>>>
>>> qemu-system-x86-4321 [001] 150.002276: kvm_exit: reason EXCEPTION_NMI
>>> rip 0x1a
>>> qemu-system-x86-4321 [001] 150.002277: kvm_page_fault: address d4dc
>>> error_code f
>>>
>>> The address is trimmed, so kvm thinks we're in real mode! The '0f 00' is
>>> just leftover bytes from the instruction.
>>>
>>> We'll need earlier traces to find how the mixup happened.
>>>
>>
>> I think I have it:
>>
>> static int load_segment_descriptor(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt,
>> struct x86_emulate_ops *ops,
>> u16 selector, int seg)
>> {
>> struct desc_struct seg_desc;
>> u8 dpl, rpl, cpl;
>> unsigned err_vec = GP_VECTOR;
>> u32 err_code = 0;
>> bool null_selector = !(selector & ~0x3); /* 0000-0003 are null */
>> int ret;
>>
>> memset(&seg_desc, 0, sizeof seg_desc);
>>
>> if ((seg <= VCPU_SREG_GS && ctxt->mode == X86EMUL_MODE_VM86)
>> || ctxt->mode == X86EMUL_MODE_REAL) {
>> /* set real mode segment descriptor */
>> set_desc_base(&seg_desc, selector << 4);
>> set_desc_limit(&seg_desc, 0xffff);
>> seg_desc.type = 3;
>> seg_desc.p = 1;
>> seg_desc.s = 1;
>> goto load;
>> }
>>
>>
>> seg_desc is not initialized, so seg_desc.d gets a random value. This
>> selects 32-bit or 16-bit mode, and explains the confusion. Likely the other
>> case as well.
>>
>
> It is initialized, I even quoted the memset(). So the problem is somewhere
> else, we'll need more traces to find out.
>
I was playing around with the non-atomic-injection branch. I decided
to use e_i_g_s=1, and it's worth noting that I never experienced these
faults with the switch enabled.
> --
> I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
> signature is too narrow to contain.
>
>
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