Re: [PATCH RESEND] KVM: when entering real mode align segment base to 16 bytes

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On 12/27/2010 04:37 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>  What's the scenario here?  And what segment is involved?  if it's fs
>  or gs, or maybe ss, I can see it working out, but hardly otherwise.
>
The scenario is older Seabios that lefts DS segment unaligned during
switch to real mode in int1587 function (copy extended memory).


Did it not use %ds then?

What about switching back to protected mode? I see we do restore the base, so it can continue to use the segment. I guess this isn't an issue for 1587.

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