Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Xen 3.2 and Big Real Mode support?

[Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:06:28 +0000
Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 31/1/08 13:40, "Guillaume Thouvenin" <guillaume.thouvenin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> >> I reproduced the problem. CPUID is not executed before the crash. Also a
> >> disassembly of that area of memory does not look like sane 16-bit code. So 
> >> I
> >> think something has gone wrong before we get to the (probably bogus) MOVHPS
> >> instruction.
> > 
> > A question here. You reproduce the problem by starting a domain and
> > booting it on the openSUSE-10.3-GM-x86_64-mini.iso CD-ROM? How do you
> > disassemble the area of memory that produces the problem? Are you using
> > "objdump" on the bootloader found on the iso file or are you using some
> > other trick?
> 
> By the way, this is now fixed with tip of the xen-unstable tree (changeset
> 16980), obtainable from http://xenbits.xensource.com/staging/xen-unstable.hg

Waow. I don't understand everything (and especially how you find that
the problem was here) but it works now.

 I have another question, why did you remove VMXASSIST? I saw that you
replaced all invocation to VMXASSIST by only one call to
vmx_goto_realmode() in arch/x86/hvm/svm/x86_64/exits.S. Are there some
links to any discussion about this choice?

Thanks for your help,
Guillaume

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