Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: emulator: Use linearize() when fetching instructions.

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Wed Apr 20 2011 - 09:04:53 EST


On 04/18/2011 07:05 PM, Nelson Elhage wrote:
Since segments need to be handled slightly differently when fetching
instructions, we add a __linearize helper that accepts a new 'fetch' boolean.

static int segmented_read_std(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt,
struct segmented_address addr,
void *data,
@@ -637,11 +646,13 @@ static int do_fetch_insn_byte(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt,
int size, cur_size;

if (eip == fc->end) {
- unsigned long linear = eip + ctxt->cs_base;
- if (ctxt->mode != X86EMUL_MODE_PROT64)
- linear&= (u32)-1;
+ unsigned long linear;
+ struct segmented_address addr = {VCPU_SREG_CS, eip};
cur_size = fc->end - fc->start;
size = min(15UL - cur_size, PAGE_SIZE - offset_in_page(eip));

Breaks immediately - the segmented_address initializer is backwards. I've fixed this in my tree.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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