I ran two tests. One was a program after
MS-DOS boot-up; the other was using GRUB to boot the code and call start_vmx.
Both led to GP exception.
I haven’t really checked A20M. but
I use the following code to disable it.
_disable_A20:
push
ax
in
al, 0x92
and
al, 0x0fd
out
0x92, al
pop
ax
retn
Best
regards,
Hu Jia
Yi
Ext:
20430
Tel:
65-67510430
-----Original Message-----
From: Keir Fraser [mailto:Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008
4:41 PM
To: Hu Jia Yi; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] GP
exception on vmxon
How
early do you run? Are you really confident that you disabled A20M? A simple
test would confirm this (check whether address 2MB aliases with 1MB).
-- Keir
On 11/1/08 06:46, "Hu Jia Yi" <jyhu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello, I tried
to write a piece of code to start vmx.
This code is directly interacting with cpu instead of with virtual cpu as in
xen.
But every time I call vmxon, a GP exception happens.
Could anybody help me on this? The following is the context
1.
After
booting up to the program, I disable A20M.
2.
allocate
a 4kb-aligned vmxon region and calculate its physical address.
3.
setup
identity page table and enter protected page mode. In this step I also set
x86_cr0_ne ( cr0.bit5)
4.
call
start_vmx. This start_vmx function is similar to the one in xen3.1.0
1.
test
cpuid with eax = 1. ecx.vmxe(bit5) is 1.
2.
Test
IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL_MSR, result is 0x05, so bit 0 and bit 2 are both 1.
3.
Set
cr4.vmxe (bit13) to 1
4.
Call
vmx_init_vmcs_config(). This function is the same as in xen3.1.0.
5.
Call
vmxon, passing it the physical adderss calculated in step2, using the same
op-code as xen
f. stop vmx by calling vmxoff.
Using “while(1)”, I traced and found the GP exception happened in
step 4.e.
>From Intel Software Development Manual 2B, I get the following conditions to
throw a GP.
IF (CPL > 0) or (in A20M mode) or
(the values of CR0 and CR4 are supported in VMX operation) or
(bit 0 (lock bit) of IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL MSR is clear) or
(bit 2 of IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL MSR is clear)
THEN #GP(0);
I checked the conditions and found none of them was violated.
The results are as follows
CR0 :
0x80000031
IA32_VMX_CR0_FIXED0: 0x80000021
IA32_VMX_CR0_FIXED1: 0xFFFFFFFF
CR4 :
0x2250
IA32_VMX_CR4_FIXED0: 0x2000
IA32_VMX_CR4_FIXED1: 0x27FF
IA32_VMX_BASIC_MSR is 001A 0400 0000 0007
The revision ID 0x07 is assigned to the corresponding field in vmxon region in
the step 4.d
IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL is 0x05
My PC has a 32 bit, VT-support multi-core CPU.
I use only the BSP and haven’t dealt with multi-cpu wake-up.
Best
regards,
Hu Jia Yi
Ext: 20430
Tel: 65-67510430
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