Aurelien Jarno a écrit :
> Avi Kivity a écrit :
>> Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:12:18PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>>
>>>> Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have marked the invlpg instruction the same way as it is done in
>>>>> kvm-37 to know what happens. I get either modrm_reg = 4 or = 6 when the
>>>>> invlpg instruction is executed, but never = 7.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Then it isn't the invlpg instruction at all. Rather smsw (modrm_reg ==
>>>> 4) or lmsw ( == 6).
>>>>
>>>> I'm confused.
>>>>
>>>> (looks)
>>>>
>>>> Okay. What we have here is total breakage when emulating an instruction
>>>> that uses a mod r/m encoding that actually refers to a register
>>>> (modrm_mod == 3). In x86_decode_insn() we set src.type as OP_MEM, and
>>>> in x86_emulate_insn() we happily fetch it even though it's a register,
>>>> generating a fault.
>>>>
>>>> It usually doesn't bite us because these instructions are directly
>>>> executed.
>>>>
>>>> The fix is probably to switch to OP_REG if SrcMem and ModRM and
>>>> modrm_mod == 3 (similarly for DstMem).
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Ok, I have tried to implement that for SrcMem, and it works in my case.
>>> I am able to boot FreeBSD, and I am seeing no regression for Linux or
>>> Hurd VMs. Does the patch below looks ok to you?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> KVM: Fix the invlpg instruction emulation on AMD64
>>>
>>> The patch below correctly detects the invlpg instruction, and switch
>>> src.type to OP_REG. This fixes the boot of FreeBSD on an AMD64 CPU, it has
>>> been broken since commit aa38840d3d2e0a804e628077df8d8879b496d741.
>>>
>>> It also moves the assignation of c->src.bytes after the test as it is
>>> not needed for the invlpg instruction.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/kvm/x86_emulate.c b/drivers/kvm/x86_emulate.c
>>> index e974ace..06e183b 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/kvm/x86_emulate.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/kvm/x86_emulate.c
>>> @@ -825,12 +825,12 @@ modrm_done:
>>> c->src.bytes = 4;
>>> goto srcmem_common;
>>> case SrcMem:
>>> - c->src.bytes = (c->d & ByteOp) ? 1 :
>>> - c->op_bytes;
>>> /* Don't fetch the address for invlpg: it could be unmapped. */
>>> - if (c->twobyte && c->b == 0x01
>>> - && c->modrm_reg == 7)
>>> + if ((c->d & ModRM) && c->modrm_mod == 3) {
>>> + c->src.type = OP_REG;
>>> break;
>>> + }
>>> + c->src.bytes = (c->d & ByteOp) ? 1 : c->op_bytes;
>>> srcmem_common:
>>> c->src.type = OP_MEM;
>>> break;
>>>
>> Why did you remove the check for invlpg? It need not be executed with
>> modrm_mod == 3 (in fact invlpg with modrm_mod == 3 is useless), so it
>> won't be caught by this.
>
> Because I really thing this check is buggy. On my tests, modrm_reg is
> always different than 7 for the invlpg instruction, so the test is
> always false.
JFTR, in kvm-37 (the latest version that work out of the box for
FreeBSD), SrcMem is removed from twobyte[1] on AMD.
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