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On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Gabe Black <[email protected]> wrote:

> Any chance somebody can send me a patch?
>
> Gabe
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Gabe Black <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I have no plans to attend HPCA at the moment.
>>
>> There are folks here who are using my original version of this patch and
>> would like to check it into our internal version of gem5, but I think we
>> should use a version of it that doesn't break anything else in the process.
>> Unfortunately I don't have an SVM capable machine around to test on so I
>> can't vet things myself, but if you guys have a patch you're confident
>> doesn't break either Intel or AMD KVM I can pass that along. Please let me
>> know if there's anything I can do to help.
>>
>> Gabe
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 8:05 AM, Jason Lowe-Power <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > On Jan. 30, 2017, 10:31 p.m., Gabe Black wrote:
>>> > > Hi folks. I put together this patch a long time ago, there was some
>>> discussion about it, and then I lost track of what was going on with it.
>>> Have the issues it causes with AMD cpus been tracked down? Glancing through
>>> this again, I think there are a couple things which are genuinely wrong
>>> which should fix things regardless of the underlying CPU (like reversed
>>> bits, things that shouldn't be set but are), but I wouldn't want to push it
>>> if it would break some other things which are currently working. Please
>>> update me on the current state of things.
>>> >
>>> > mike upton wrote:
>>> >     I developed another patch on top that had both AMD and intel
>>> working. I cant remember the number, and it should certainly be retested
>>> before merging.
>>> >     I will need to see if I can fins a current AMD box.
>>> >
>>> >     So the answer to your question is: yes there were issues, the
>>> issues were tracked down and there is a additional patch that gets both
>>> intel and AMD SE virtualization working. The code has not been tested in 2
>>> years though.
>>>
>>> I've been using some version of these patches in my local repository for
>>> a while now. I think I may have some patches on top of these to fix other
>>> issues, too.
>>>
>>> I've added this as a possible project for a Sprint this Sunday (
>>> http://gem5.org/Sprint_Ideas#Push_in_fixes_to_x86_KVM). Any chance
>>> you're going to be at HPCA, and want to work on this, Mike or Gabe?
>>>
>>>
>>> - Jason
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>> On Dec. 10, 2014, 10:11 a.m., Gabe Black wrote:
>>> >
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>>> > http://reviews.gem5.org/r/2557/
>>> > -----------------------------------------------------------
>>> >
>>> > (Updated Dec. 10, 2014, 10:11 a.m.)
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Review request for Default.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Repository: gem5
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Description
>>> > -------
>>> >
>>> > Changeset 10606:aa3eb7453246
>>> > ---------------------------
>>> > x86: kvm: Fix the KVM CPU in SE and FS on Intel CPUs.
>>> >
>>> > There were a number of problems with how things were initialized which
>>> prevent
>>> > VMX from running the simulation as a guest.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Diffs
>>> > -----
>>> >
>>> >   src/arch/x86/process.cc 8fc6e7a835d1d313e139c9095251105f904ac1b4
>>> >   src/arch/x86/regs/misc.hh 8fc6e7a835d1d313e139c9095251105f904ac1b4
>>> >   src/arch/x86/system.hh 8fc6e7a835d1d313e139c9095251105f904ac1b4
>>> >   src/arch/x86/system.cc 8fc6e7a835d1d313e139c9095251105f904ac1b4
>>> >   src/arch/x86/utility.hh 8fc6e7a835d1d313e139c9095251105f904ac1b4
>>> >   src/arch/x86/utility.cc 8fc6e7a835d1d313e139c9095251105f904ac1b4
>>> >   src/cpu/kvm/x86_cpu.cc 8fc6e7a835d1d313e139c9095251105f904ac1b4
>>> >
>>> > Diff: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/2557/diff/
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Testing
>>> > -------
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> >
>>> > Gabe Black
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
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