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From: stsp <stsp2@yandex.ru>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
	Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Cc: kvm list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: guest/host mem out of sync on core2duo?
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2021 03:11:42 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4834cc76-72d5-4d23-7a56-63e455683db5@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YM0fBtqYe+VyPME7@google.com>

19.06.2021 01:32, Sean Christopherson пишет:
> Argh!  Check out this gem:
>
> 	/*
> 	 *   Fix the "Accessed" bit in AR field of segment registers for older
> 	 * qemu binaries.
> 	 *   IA32 arch specifies that at the time of processor reset the
> 	 * "Accessed" bit in the AR field of segment registers is 1. And qemu
> 	 * is setting it to 0 in the userland code. This causes invalid guest
> 	 * state vmexit when "unrestricted guest" mode is turned on.
> 	 *    Fix for this setup issue in cpu_reset is being pushed in the qemu
> 	 * tree. Newer qemu binaries with that qemu fix would not need this
> 	 * kvm hack.
> 	 */
> 	if (is_unrestricted_guest(vcpu) && (seg != VCPU_SREG_LDTR))
> 		var->type |= 0x1; /* Accessed */
>
>
> KVM fixes up segs when unrestricted guest is enabled, but otherwise leaves 'em
> be, presumably because it has the emulator to fall back on for invalid state.
> Guess what's missing in the invalid state check...
>
> I think this should do it:
Until when will it run on an
emulator in this case?
Will it be too slow without a
slightest hint to the user?

If it is indeed the performance
penalty for no good reason,
then my preference would be
to get an error right from
KVM_SET_SREGS instead,
or maybe from KVM_RUN,
but not run everything on
an emulator.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-19  0:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-12 22:49 guest/host mem out of sync on core2duo? stsp
2021-06-13 12:36 ` stsp
2021-06-14 17:06 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-06-14 17:32   ` stsp
2021-06-17 14:42     ` Sean Christopherson
2021-06-18 15:59       ` stsp
2021-06-18 21:07         ` Jim Mattson
2021-06-18 21:55           ` stsp
2021-06-18 22:06             ` Jim Mattson
2021-06-18 22:26               ` stsp
2021-06-18 22:32               ` Sean Christopherson
2021-06-19  0:11                 ` stsp [this message]
2021-06-19  0:54                   ` Sean Christopherson
2021-06-19  9:18                     ` stsp
2021-06-21  2:34           ` exception vs SIGALRM race (was: Re: guest/host mem out of sync on core2duo?) stsp
2021-06-21 22:33             ` Jim Mattson
2021-06-21 23:32               ` stsp
2021-06-22  0:27               ` stsp
2021-06-28 21:47                 ` Jim Mattson
2021-06-28 21:50                   ` stsp
2021-06-28 22:00                   ` stsp
2021-06-28 22:27                     ` Jim Mattson
2021-07-06 16:28                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-07-06 22:22                         ` stsp
2021-07-06 23:41                           ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-23 23:38               ` exception vs SIGALRM race (with test-case now!) stsp
2021-06-24  0:11                 ` stsp
2021-06-24  0:25                   ` stsp
2021-06-24 18:05                     ` exception vs SIGALRM race on core2 CPUs (with qemu-based test-case this time!) stsp
2021-06-24 18:07                     ` stsp
2021-06-25 23:35                       ` exception vs SIGALRM race on core2 CPUs (with fix!) stsp
2021-06-26  0:15                         ` Jim Mattson
2021-06-26  0:35                           ` stsp
2021-06-26 21:50                           ` stsp
2021-06-27 12:13                           ` stsp
2021-06-26 14:03               ` exception vs SIGALRM race (another patch) stsp

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