linux-kernel - Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 2/3] Refactor hypercall infrastructure (v3)

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:27:40 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
To:	Anthony Liguori <aliguori@...ibm.com>
CC:	kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 2/3] Refactor hypercall infrastructure (v3)

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>  
>>> This patch refactors the current hypercall infrastructure to better 
>>> support live
>>> migration and SMP.  It eliminates the hypercall page by trapping the UD
>>> exception that would occur if you used the wrong hypercall 
>>> instruction for the
>>> underlying architecture and replacing it with the right one lazily.
>>>
>>> It also introduces the infrastructure to probe for hypercall 
>>> available via
>>> CPUID leaves 0x40000000.  CPUID leaf 0x40000001 should be filled out by
>>> userspace.
>>>
>>> A fall-out of this patch is that the unhandled hypercalls no longer 
>>> trap to
>>> userspace.  There is very little reason though to use a hypercall to 
>>> communicate
>>> with userspace as PIO or MMIO can be used.  There is no code in tree 
>>> that uses
>>> userspace hypercalls.
>>>
>>>       
>>
>>
>> Surprisingly, this patch kills Windows XP (ACPI HAL).  I'll try to 
>> find out why.
>>
>>   
>
> Not trapping #UD brings things back to normal.  So, Windows likes to 
> execute undefined instructions, and we don'd handle these well.
>
Okay, vmx_inject_ud() was broken.  Fixed now.


-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/