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Re: [PATCH] x86emul: recognize CLDEMOTE


  • To: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 16:07:48 +0100
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On 25.01.2022 15:35, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 03:22:25PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> We claim to support the insn, but so far the emulator has been handling
>> it as a NOP.
> 
> While not ideal, the SDM mentions that "The CLDEMOTE instruction may
> be ignored by hardware in certain cases and is not a guarantee.".

Right; the same is effectively the case for CLFLUSH etc. Still, unlike
prefetches, we implement them in the emulator.

>> --- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/emulate.c
>> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/emulate.c
>> @@ -2351,6 +2351,28 @@ static int hvmemul_cache_op(
>>           * to be sensibly used is in (virtualization unaware) firmware.
>>           */
>>          break;
>> +
>> +    case x86emul_cldemote:
>> +        ASSERT(!is_x86_system_segment(seg));
>> +
>> +        if ( !boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CLDEMOTE) ||
>> +             hvmemul_virtual_to_linear(seg, offset, 0, NULL, 
>> hvm_access_none,
>> +                                       hvmemul_ctxt, &addr) != X86EMUL_OKAY 
>> )
>> +            break;
>> +
>> +        if ( hvmemul_ctxt->seg_reg[x86_seg_ss].dpl == 3 )
>> +            pfec |= PFEC_user_mode;
>> +
>> +        mapping = hvmemul_map_linear_addr(addr, 0, pfec, hvmemul_ctxt);
> 
> I think the emulator should map the address using the same cache
> attributes as the guest, or else the result might be different than
> intended?

That's a pre-existing problem everywhere, not something specific to
this one insn.

Jan




 


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