Re: [Xen-devel] [semi-urgent Xen CS question] Re: git commit 9fd67b4ed0714ab718f1f9bd14c344af336a6df7 (x86-64: Give vvars their own page) breaks Xen PV guests (64-bit).

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>]

On 07/26/2011 07:17 PM, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 7:37 PM, j.fitz.inge@xxxxxxxxx <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
>> The correct fix is to just look at the cpl in cs and ignore the rest of the
>> selector.
> No.  All three of these code paths are trap handlers that are trying
> to distinguish between 64-bit and 32-bit segments.  The CPL is 3 in
> either case.

Oh, hm.

> It looks like the reason I didn't find the code that it references
> TRAP_syscall not VCGF_in_syscall.  Yay for grep-unfriendly code.
>
> Barring a better idea, I'll implement a new paravirt op.
>

Ugh.  I'd really like to avoid that.

    J

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