On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 12:26:19PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com>
> 
> Xen is doing this [1] and currently triggers an abort.
> 
> [1] 
> http://xenbits.xenproject.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=blob;f=xen/drivers/passthrough/vtd/iommu.c;h=daaed0abbdd06b6ba3d948ea103aadf02651e83c;hb=refs/heads/master#l1108
> 
> Reported-by: Luis Lloret <luis_llo...@mentor.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com>
> ---
>  hw/i386/intel_iommu.c | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/i386/intel_iommu.c b/hw/i386/intel_iommu.c
> index 2e841cde27..b61d0da270 100644
> --- a/hw/i386/intel_iommu.c
> +++ b/hw/i386/intel_iommu.c
> @@ -2129,7 +2129,12 @@ static void vtd_mem_write(void *opaque, hwaddr addr,
>  
>      /* Fault Event Address Register, 32-bit */
>      case DMAR_FEADDR_REG:
> -        assert(size == 4);
> +        /*
> +         * While the register is 32-bit only, some guests (Xen...) write to 
> it
> +         * with 64-bit. Ignore the upper part, that's likely what the 
> hardware
> +         * does as well (plus the upper part is not used by our model 
> anyway).
> +         */
> +        assert(size >= 4);
>          vtd_set_long(s, addr, val);
>          break;

(Sorry for the late response due to Chinese Spring Festival)

I agree with the problem there, but do we still better provide a
conditional vtd_set_quad()?  Since from the spec 10.4.13 the upper 32
bits may still be used when x2apic (Extended Interrupt Mode) is
enabled?

Thanks,

-- 
Peter Xu

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