[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH][RFC] Emulating real mode with x86_emulate

["Kamble, Nitin A" <nitin.a.kamble@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Anthony,
  I tried your patch at my end with snapshot of xen-unstable on 20070326. And here are my findings.
   - The --emulate-16bit option for qemu did not work. qemu is not accepting this as an valid command line option.
   - I tried hardcoding this to 1 in the qemu code, and found that the port x595 is not reflecting it correctly to hvmloader.
   - Then I tried forcing in the hvmloader to use the emulator instead of vmxassit, and I see the the emulator is not getting the right context. Following is the console log at this point.

(XEN) HVM3: HVM Loader                                                          
(XEN) HVM3: Detected Xen v3.0-unstable                                          
(XEN) HVM3: Writing SMBIOS tables ...                                           
(XEN) HVM3: Loading ROMBIOS ...                                                 
(XEN) irq.c:210: Dom3 PCI link 0 changed 0 -> 5                                 
(XEN) HVM3: PCI-ISA link 0 routed to IRQ5                                       
(XEN) irq.c:210: Dom3 PCI link 1 changed 0 -> 7                                 
(XEN) HVM3: PCI-ISA link 1 routed to IRQ7                                       
(XEN) irq.c:210: Dom3 PCI link 2 changed 0 -> 10                                
(XEN) HVM3: PCI-ISA link 2 routed to IRQ10                                      
(XEN) irq.c:210: Dom3 PCI link 3 changed 0 -> 11                                
(XEN) HVM3: PCI-ISA link 3 routed to IRQ11                                      
(XEN) HVM3: pci dev 01:1 bar 20 size 00000010: 0000c001                         
(XEN) HVM3: pci dev 01:2 INTA->IRQ7                                             
(XEN) HVM3: pci dev 02:0 bar 10 size 02000000: f0000008                         
(XEN) HVM3: pci dev 02:0 bar 14 size 00001000: f2000000                         
(XEN) HVM3: pci dev 03:0 bar 10 size 00000100: 0000c101                         
(XEN) HVM3: pci dev 03:0 bar 14 size 01000000: f3000008                         
(XEN) HVM3: pci dev 03:0 INTA->IRQ11                                            
(XEN) HVM3: pci dev 04:0 bar 10 size 00000100: 0000c201                         
(XEN) HVM3: pci dev 04:0 bar 14 size 00000100: f4000000                         
(XEN) HVM3: pci dev 04:0 INTA->IRQ5                                             
(XEN) HVM3: Creating MP tables ...                                              
(XEN) HVM3: Loading Cirrus VGABIOS ...                                          
(XEN) HVM3: Loading ACPI ...                                                    
(XEN) HVM3: Not Loading VMXAssist ... ffffffff                                  
(XEN) HVM3: foo                                                                 
(XEN) hvmop_emulate_realmode                                                    
(XEN) guest requests real mode emulation                                        
(XEN) foo 221                                                                   
(XEN) HVM3: Invoking ROMBIOS ...                                                
(XEN) Transfering control to x86_emulate %eip 0x0                               
(XEN) hvm.c:446:d3 Triple fault on VCPU0 - invoking HVM system reset.    

The log shows that emulator is not getting the right cpu context. 
How much of testing have you done with this code? I am not able to proceed to emulation of 1 instruction with the patch. How many instruction could you emulate with the patch?

Thanks & Regards,
Nitin
Open Source Technology Center, Intel Corporation.
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On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 16:35 -0700, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>     Howdy,
>     
>     Attached is a patch that begins to lay down the infrastructure for
>     emulating real mode with x86_emulate().  With a little more refactoring,
>     I think it could also replace the SVM emulator.
>     
>     The patch introduces an HVMOP hypercall to set a flag in the hvm vcpu
>     struct to signal that real mode should be emulated with x86_emulate
>     instead of using vm86.  This is to make development a little bit easier
>     since x86_emulate is not quite there yet wrt 16 bit emulation.  It can
>     be enabled by passing -emulate-16bit to qemu-dm (I use a wrapper script
>     similar to qemu-dm.debug).
>     
>     The VT code keeps track of the whether it's in the emulator and loops on
>     the do_resume path in x86_emulate.  I think this code probably should be
>     refactored into the common HVM code although this would require changing
>     some of the HVM ops.  This would allow SVM to use the x86_emulate to
>     handle individual instructions.
>     
>     There are some issues to work out.  Namely, x86_emulate appears to want
>     blocking PIO calls which isn't conducive to the wait PIO works today in
>     HVM.  This is only a problem for instructions at the moment.  I'm also a
>     bit confused about how to properly loop in the emulator.  schedule_tail
>     is not meant to return so perhaps we should loop on emulating == 1
>     instead of hypercall_preempt_check?  I didn't think the hypervisor was
>     preemptable though.
>     
>     The current code doesn't handle non-flat segments as I don't think
>     hvm_copy_from/to_guest handles it (which I assume it would need to).
>     
>     However, it is enough to start running instructions in x86_emulate so
>     it's enough to start working on enhancing that.
>     
>     Regards,
>     
>     Anthony Liguori
>     
>

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