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Date:	Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:10:03 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Cc:	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
Subject: [PATCH 17/52] KVM: VMX: Force seg.base == (seg.sel << 4) in real  mode

From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>

Ensure that segment.base == segment.selector << 4 when entering the real
mode on Intel so that the CPU will not bark at us.  This fixes some old
protected mode demo from http://www.x86.org/articles/pmbasics/tspec_a1_doc.htm.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
---
 drivers/kvm/vmx.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/kvm/vmx.c b/drivers/kvm/vmx.c
index c23f399..fbe792d 100644
--- a/drivers/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/drivers/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -1165,7 +1165,8 @@ static void fix_rmode_seg(int seg, struct kvm_save_segment *save)
 	save->base = vmcs_readl(sf->base);
 	save->limit = vmcs_read32(sf->limit);
 	save->ar = vmcs_read32(sf->ar_bytes);
-	vmcs_write16(sf->selector, vmcs_readl(sf->base) >> 4);
+	vmcs_write16(sf->selector, save->base >> 4);
+	vmcs_write32(sf->base, save->base & 0xfffff);
 	vmcs_write32(sf->limit, 0xffff);
 	vmcs_write32(sf->ar_bytes, 0xf3);
 }
-- 
1.5.3.7

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