Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-i386: fix order of checks in cpu_get_phys_page_debug

[Max Filippov]

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt
<address@hidden> wrote:
> In target-i386 cpu_get_phys_page_debug, the CR4_PAE bit is checked
> before CR0_PG. This means that if paging is disabled but the PAE bit has
> been set in CR4, cpu_get_phys_page_debug will return the wrong result
> (it will try to translate the address as virtual rather than using it as
> a physical address). This patch fixes that by moving the CR0_PG check to
> the beginning of the function.
>
> This shows up when booting the Linux kernel on amd64 with "-d in_asm".
> The kernel turns on the PAE bit in CR4 before turning on paging, and so
> QEMU's disassembler will fail because it will try to walk the page
> tables to fetch code even though paging is disabled. The symptom is
> incorrect disassembly and some "Disassembler disagrees with translator
> over instruction decoding" messages.
>
> This was also reported as bug #1163065.

Hi,

a while ago I sent similar patch:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/180776
and a suggestion for me was to unify cpu_get_phys_page_debug and
cpu_x86_handle_mmu_fault implementations.

-- 
Thanks.
-- Max