Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] KVM - Fix rmode_tss_base declaration

[Avi Kivity]

Jeff Dike wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 10:13:42AM +0800, Li, Xin B wrote:
>   
>>> -static int rmode_tss_base(struct kvm* kvm)
>>> +static unsigned long rmode_tss_base(struct kvm* kvm)
>>>       
>> Should use gpa_t instead.
>>     
>
> Right you are, I didn't notice that type.
>
>   

Some extra logic is needed on i386 with >= 4GB.  Current code will
wraparound since gfn_t is 32-bits long, but casting it to 64-bits is not
the answer since the processor will truncate it back to 32 bits (the
return value is eventually used as a long in enter_rmode()).


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