Emulate cmpxchg8b atomically on i386. This is required to avoid a guest
pte walker from seeing a splitted write.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff --git a/drivers/kvm/x86.c b/drivers/kvm/x86.c
index 9db4e32..d58d795 100644
--- a/drivers/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/drivers/kvm/x86.c
@@ -1674,6 +1674,33 @@ static int emulator_cmpxchg_emulated(uns
reported = 1;
printk(KERN_WARNING "kvm: emulating exchange as write\n");
}
+#ifndef CONFIG_X86_64
+ /* guests cmpxchg8b have to be emulated atomically */
+ if (bytes == 8) {
+ gpa_t gpa = vcpu->mmu.gva_to_gpa(vcpu, addr);
+ struct page *page;
+ char *addr;
+ u64 *val;
+
+ if (gpa == UNMAPPED_GVA ||
+ (gpa & PAGE_MASK) == APIC_DEFAULT_PHYS_BASE)
+ goto emul_write;
+
+ val = (u64 *)new;
+ page = gfn_to_page(page, gpa >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+ addr = kmap_atomic(page, KM_USER0);
+ addr += offset_in_page(gpa);
+
+ set_64bit((unsigned long long *)addr, val);
+
+ kunmap_atomic(page, KM_USER0);
+ kvm_release_page_dirty(page);
+
+ return X86EMUL_CONTINUE;
+ }
+#endif
+
+emul_write:
return emulator_write_emulated(addr, new, bytes, vcpu);
}
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